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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular, optical physics, advanced electron microscopy, cryo-EM

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics, superconducting qubits, quantum limited amplifiers, quantum circuits

Luca Victor Iliesiu

Dept of Physics

quantum field theory, quantum gravity

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Victoria Xu

Dept of Physics

fundamental physics

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear security, nuclear energy, fundamental science

Raúl Briceño in outdoor setting

Dept of Physics

nuclear physics, particle physics

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Gabriel Orebi Gann presenting with hands raise in front of her

Gabriel Orebi Gann

Dept of Physics

particle physics

Dept of Physics

particle physics

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

Kam-Biu Luk

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, neutrino oscillation, neutrino mixing parameters, nuclear instrumentation, data mining, neutrino physics

Dept of Physics

experimental condensed matter physics

Naomi Ginsberg photo 2026

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics and material science, physical chemistry, statistical mechanics, biophysics, atomic molecular and optical physics

Ezra Rubenstein

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, metaphysics

Robert Birgeneau

Dept of Physics

Goldman School of Public Policy

physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Photograph of Karl van Bibber in 2019

Karl van Bibber

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Particle Astrophysics, dark matter, Axions, experimental nuclear physics, Accelerator Technology and Neutron Sources

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Kater Murch at the start of the Edwin Jaynes Symposium

Kater Murch

Dept of Physics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

open quantum systems and non-hermitian physics, quantum sensing and metrology, superconducting quantum circuits, dark matter detection, quantum thermodynamics

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, materials physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion