Employment History

University of Oxford

• • Rudolf Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics

    • Professor of Physics, September 2023-present 

    • Associate Professor, August 2017 -  September 2023 (tenured August 2021).

  • Hertford College

    • Tutorial Fellow in Physics August 2017-present

    • Fellow for Research, October 2022-present.

University of California, Irvine

• • Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, July 2014 - June 2018 (on leave July 2017-June 2018; promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018).

  • Founding member, California Institute for Quantum Emulation (CAIQuE), January 2016-July 2017.

University of California, Berkeley

• • Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, August 2011-June 2014.  [Advisors: Ashvin Vishwanath, Joel Moore, and Dung-Hai Lee].

Education

Princeton University, September 2006- August 2011

• • PhD in Physics. Advisor: Shivaji L. Sondhi.

University of Rochester, August 2002-May 2006

• • B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude and with highest distinction.

  • B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude and with highest distinction.

Awards and Honors

• Martin Gutzwiller Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, 2024.

• Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, 2023.

• ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council, 2019-2024.

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2015-2020.

• Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2011-2014.

• Centennial Fellowship of the Graduate School, Princeton University, 2006-2011.

• Friends of Davis International Center Graduate Student Teaching Prize, Princeton University, 2010.

• Departmental Teaching Prize, Physics, Princeton University, 2008, 2009.

• Renaissance Full-Tuition Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2002-2006.

• John Flagg Prize in Physics, University of Rochester, 2006.

• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester, 2005.

• Stoddard Prize in Mathematics, University of Rochester, 2003.

• Sophomore Honors Prize, Physics, University of Rochester, 2003.

Professional Activities

• Coordinator, Dynamics of Quantum Information, 13-week workshop at KITP, Santa Barbara, August-October 2018 (with Romain Vasseur, Rahul Nandkishore, and Marcos Rigol).

• Co-organizer, Frustration, Orbital Fluctuations and Topology in Kondo Lattices and their Relatives, MPI-PKS Dresden, July-August 2018 (with David Logan, Inti Sodemann, and Satoru Nakatsuji).

• Co-organizer, Relativistic Fermions and Nodal Semimetals from Topology, Banff International Research Station, February 2018 (with Marcel Franz, Andrei Bernevig, Phuan Ong, and Claudia Felser).

• Co-organizer, Geometrical Degrees of Freedom in Topological Phases, Banff International Research Station, August 2016 (with Joseph Maciejko and Eduardo Fradkin).

• Co-organizer, Advanced Working Group on Many-Body Localization, July 2016 (with Roderich Moessner and Claudio Castelnovo).

• Co-organizer, Gordon Research Seminar on Correlated Electron Systems, Mt. Holyoke College, Mass., June 2016 (with Cassie Hunt).

• Faculty organizer, California Summer Workshop on Advanced Research in Materials, UC Irvine, June 20-23, 2016.

• Co-organizer, conference on Frustration, disorder and localization: Statics and Dynamics, ICTP, Trieste, September 2015 (with Karyn Le Hur, Roderich Moessner, Markus Mueller and Antonello Scardicchio.)

• Co-organizer, Many-Body Dynamics Out of Equilibrium, International Focus Workshop, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, March 2015 (with Frank Pollmann and Jens Bardarson).

• Co-organizer, Topological Matter Out of Equilibrium, International Focus Workshop, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, March 2014 (with Roderich Moessner).

• Organizer, UC Berkeley Quantum Materials Seminar, 2012-14.

• Co-organizer, Flat Bands: Design, Topology, and Correlations, International Focus Workshop, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, March 2013 (with Roderich Moessner and Marcel Franz).

• Organizer, Princeton Student/Postdoc Seminar series, 2009-10.

• Princeton Representative, Gotham-Metro Condensed Matter Meeting, New York Academy of Sciences, 2009-10.

• Co-organizer, Princeton Summer School in Condensed Matter Physics, 2008 (with Chris Laumann and Fiona Burnell), 2009 (with Chris Laumann and Charles Mathy).

• Co-organizer, Princeton Physics Graduate Student Recruiting, 2007, 2008.

• Referee for Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Annals of Physics, New Journal of Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review and JSTAT.