Dam Thanh Son is a theoretical physicist working in a wide range of problems spanning string theory, heavy-ion physics, condensed matter and atomic physics. Dam Thanh Son pioneered the application of methods of gauge/gravity duality to the physics of the quark gluon plasma. He has made important contributions to the physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect, dense nuclear matter and ultracold atomic gases.
Dam Thanh Son received his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University and his PhD at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow, Russia. He has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago since 2012.
Dam Thanh Son is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a recipient of the 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize of the ICTP.
