Krishna Rajagopal, Ph.D.

William A. M. Burden Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

After growing up in Toronto, Rajagopal did his undergraduate work at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He obtained his doctorate at Princeton University in 1993 and spent three years at Harvard University as a junior fellow. He then spent one year at Caltech before coming to MIT in 1997. He became the associate head of the Department of Physics in 2009, served as chair of the MIT faculty from 2015 to 2017 and as MIT’s dean for digital learning from 2017 to 2021. Rajagopal’s work probing hot and cold quark matter under intense pressure links disparate strands of theoretical physics, including particle and nuclear physics, cosmology, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and string theory.

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