Netta Engelhardt, Ph.D.

Engelhardt is a theoretical physicist whose research focuses on quantum gravity, black holes and holography. Her work has played a central role in understanding how space-time and gravity emerge from quantum systems, including contributions to the study of entanglement and information in gravitational settings. She received her B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a member of the Princeton Gravity Initiative before joining the physics faculty at MIT in 2019. She received a 2019 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, the 2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize for calculating the quantum information content of black holes and their radiation, the 2023 Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society, and the 2024 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.