CTP People
This directory contains the current membership of the Center for Theoretical Physics
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Ryan Abbott
CTP Graduate Student
Christopher Akers
Postdoc
Samuel Alipour-fard
CTP Graduate Student
Elba Alonso-Monsalve
CTP Graduate Student
Eric Anschuetz
CTP Graduate Student
Pouya Asadi
Postdoc
Artur Avkhadiev
CTP Graduate Student
Adam Bene Watts
CTP Graduate Student
Joyce Berggren
Senior Administrative Assistant
Richard Brower
Research Visitor
Salvatore Cali
Postdoc
Soonwon Choi
Assistant Professor of Physics (as of July 2021)
Research interests are focused on the intersection of quantum information science and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems.
William Detmold
Associate Professor of Physics
Graduate Program Faculty Coordinator
Graduate Program Faculty Coordinator
Interests are in strong interaction dynamics in theoretical particle and nuclear physics.
Netta Engelhardt
Biedenharn Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics
Research focuses on understanding the predictions and fundamental structure of quantum gravity via holography and the black hole information paradox.
Harold Erbin
Postdoc
Edward Farhi
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Present interest is the theory of quantum computation.
Patrick Fitzpatrick
CTP Graduate Student
Aasmund Folkestad
CTP Graduate Student
Daniel Freedman
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Emeritus
Discovered supergravity at StonyBrook University with Sergio Ferrrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen in 1976.
Ping Gao
Postdoc
Anjie Gao
CTP Graduate Student
Sarah Geller
CTP Graduate Student
Jeffrey Goldstone
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Famous for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation.
Anthony Grebe
CTP Graduate Student
Alan Guth
Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
In 1981, he proposed that many features of our universe can be explained by a new cosmological model which he called inflation.
Daniel Hackett
Postdoc
Daniel Harlow
Assistant Professor of Physics
Works on combining quantum mechanics and gravity, focusing on the quantum-mechanical aspects of black holes and cosmology.
Aram Harrow
Associate Professor of Physics
His research focuses on quantum information and computing.
Atakan Hilmi Firat
CTP Graduate Student
Matthew Hodel
CTP Graduate Student
Yichen Huang
Postdoc
Roman Jackiw
Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Renowned for his many fundamental contributions and discoveries in quantum and classical field theories.
Robert Jaffe
Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science, Post-Tenure
Best known for his research on the quark substructure of matter.
Patrick Jefferson
Postdoc
David Kaiser
Professor of Physics
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science
Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science
Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Research focuses on early-universe cosmology, foundations of quantum theory, and history of modern physics.
Gurtej Kanwar
CTP Graduate Student
Patrick Komiske
CTP Graduate Student
Linghang Kong
CTP Graduate Student
Rolando LaPlaca
CTP Graduate Student
Samuel Leutheusser
CTP Graduate Student
Shing Yan Li
CTP Graduate Student
Joshua Lin
CTP Graduate Student
Hong Liu
Professor of Physics
Interested in issues in quantum gravity, such as the quantum nature of black holes and the Big Bang singularity, using the framework of string theory.
Earle Lomon
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Research interest is quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the dynamics of quarks and gluons.
John Martyn
CTP Graduate Student
Johannes Michel
Postdoc
Joseph Minahan
Research Visitor
Scott Morley
Administrator, CTP
Mark Mueller
Research Visitor
John Napp
CTP Graduate Student
John Negele
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Interested in lattice field theory to solve QCD and thereby understand the structure of nucleons in terms of their quark and gluon constituents.
Govert Nijs
Postdoc
Tokiro Numasawa
Postdoc
Patrick Oare
CTP Graduate Student
Dimitra Pefkou
CTP Graduate Student
So-Young Pi
Research Visitor
Natalia Pinzani Fokeeva
Postdoc
Wenzer Qin
CTP Graduate Student
Krishna Rajagopal
William A. M. Burden Professor of Physics
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Dean for Digital Learning
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Dean for Digital Learning
Probing the properties, microstructure and phase diagram of hot QCD matter, the primordial liquid.
Gregory Ridgway
CTP Graduate Student
Dan Roberts
Research Visitor
Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld
CTP Graduate Student
Stella Schindler
CTP Graduate Student
Katelin Schutz
Pappalardo Fellow
Phiala Shanahan
Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics
Research focuses on particle and nuclear theory and applying machine learning to understand the fundamental interactions of nature.
Tracy Slatyer
Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics
Research focuses on dark matter – novel theoretical models, predicting observable signals, and analysis of astrophysical and cosmological datasets.
Mehdi Soleimanifar
CTP Graduate Student
Iain Stewart
Professor of Physics
Director, Center for Theoretical Physics
Director, Center for Theoretical Physics
Designs and applies Effective Field Theories to describe physics at collider experiments and to explore the structure of quantum field theory.
Charles Suggs
Senior Editorial Assistant
Yitian Sun
CTP Graduate Student
Zhiquan Sun
CTP Graduate Student
Washington Taylor
Professor of Physics
Research is centered on basic theoretical questions related to quantum physics and gravity.
Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics
Research focuses on linking physics and machine learning: using AI for physics and physics for AI.
Jesse Thaler
Associate Professor of Physics
Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
Theoretical particle physicist who fuses techniques from QFT and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics.
Varun Vaidya
Postdoc
Shreya Vardhan
CTP Graduate Student
Annie Wei
CTP Graduate Student
Ryan Weller
CTP Graduate Student
Frank Wilczek
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics
2004 Nobel Laureate
2004 Nobel Laureate
Known for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and more…
Jie qiang Wu
Postdoc
Chih Liang Wu
CTP Graduate Student
Xiaojun Yao
Postdoc
James Edward Young
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Researched and taught theoretical particle physics, critical phenomena and nuclear physics in the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
Nicole Yunger-Halpern
Research Visitor
Cagin Yunus
CTP Graduate Student
Barton Zwiebach
Professor of Physics
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Contributed to the early work on the construction of open string field theory and then developed the field theory of closed strings.