Max Planck-New York Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena: Signing Ceremony, Symposium and Workshop

Paula Lukats
Administrative Manager, Center for Computational Quantum Physics
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Diane Loring
Coordinator, Center for Computational Quantum Physics
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Dr. Dmitri Basov is the Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia University, and Director of Columbia’s Energy Frontier Research Center on Programmable Quantum Materials. Basov’s research interest focus on the experimental physics of quantum materials, with a particular focus on infrared/optical nano-spectroscopy and nano-imaging of correlated electron systems and of unconventional superconductivity. He received his PhD in physics from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1991, and held positions at McMaster University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics, before moving to Columbia in 2016. Basov received numerous prizes and awards, including the Isakson Prize of the American Physical Society and the Humboldt Prize (Germany). In 2019, he was named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Mischa Bonn is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Amsterdam, known for his pathbreaking work on spectroscopy of structure and dynamics in systems ranging from biological membranes to photovoltaic materials. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Eindhoven and held positions at the Fritz Haber Institute and the University of Leiden prior to joining the Max Planck Society in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded the 2009 Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society and the 2019 Van’t Hoff prize of the German Chemical Society.

Dr. Andrea Cavalleri is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany) and a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford (UK). He is best known for his experiments in which intense TeraHertz pulses are used to drive large amplitude and coherent lattice distortions in solids, manipulating their electronic properties, and for demonstrating that one can induce non-equilibrium superconductivity far above the thermodynamic transition temperature. Cavalleri is a recipient of the 2004 European Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, of the 2015 Max Born Medal from the IoP and the DFG, of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize from the Academy of Sciences in Goettingen and of the 2018 Isakson Prize from the American Physical Society. He is a fellow of the APS, of the AAAS, and of the IoP. In 2017, he was elected Member of the Academia Europaea.

Prof. Antoine Georges is the Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute and a Professor of Physics at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair in condensed matter physics. His research focuses on the theory of many-particle quantum systems and materials with strong electronic correlations. He received his Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure in 1988. Georges is one of the inventors of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, for which he shared the 2006 Europhysics Prize. His work has been recognized by numerous fellowships and awards, including the Anatole and Suzanne Abragam Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, the 2004 Prix Dargelos, the 2006 Condensed Matter Europhysics Prize, the 2007 Silver Medal of the CNRS, a 2012 Synergy award from the European Research Council and the 2014 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Andrew Millis is Professor of Physics at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute. His research focus is the theoretical physics of electrons in materials, with a particular attention to collective properties such as superconductivity and magnetism. He received his PhD in physics from MIT in 1986 and worked at Bell Laboratories, the Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers University before joining Columbia University in 2001. At the Simons Foundation he has served as Associate Director for Physics before moving to the Flatiron Institute in the fall of 2017.He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the 2017 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics.

Dr. Angel Rubio is the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and the director of its theory department. He is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of the Basque Country and a professor of physics at the University of Hamburg. He is one of the founders of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility and the originator of the widely used ab initio open-source project Octopus. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2016 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physical Society, the 2014 Premio Rey Jaime I for basic research, the 2006 DuPont Prize in nanotechnology, the 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, and two European Research Council advanced grants, in 2011 and 2016. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Academia Europaea, and a foreign associate member of the National Academy of Sciences.