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
Richard Allen
CTP Graduate Student
Elba Alonso-Monsalve
CTP Graduate Student
Nina "Galit" Anikeeva
CTP Graduate Student
Eric Anschuetz
CTP Graduate Student
Artur Avkhadiev
CTP Graduate Student
Shankar Balasubramanian
CTP Graduate Student
Sean Benevedes
Graduate Student
Cari Cesarotti
Postdoc
Zhuo Chen
CTP Graduate Student
Soonwon Choi
Assistant Professor of Physics
Research interests are focused on the intersection of quantum information science and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems.
Wentao Cui
CTP Graduate Student
William Detmold
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 Associate Professor of Physics
Research focuses on understanding the predictions and fundamental structure of quantum gravity via holography and the black hole information paradox.
Edward Farhi
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Present interest is the theory of quantum computation.
Aasmund Folkestad
CTP Graduate Student
Joshua Foster
Postdoc
Daniel Freedman
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Emeritus
Discovered supergravity at StonyBrook University with Sergio Ferrrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen in 1976.
Rikab Gambhir
CTP Graduate Student
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.
Wenjie Gong
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
Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics
Works on combining quantum mechanics and gravity, focusing on the quantum-mechanical aspects of black holes and cosmology.
Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca
Postdoc
Atakan Hilmi Firat
CTP Graduate Student
Mikhail Ivanov
Assistant Professor of Physics
Research focuses on large-scale structure, effective field theories, black holes, and astrophysical and cosmological data analysis.
Robert Jaffe
Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science, Post-Tenure
Best known for his research on the quark substructure of matter.
William Jay
Postdoc
David Kaiser
Professor of Physics
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science (STS)
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science (STS)
Research focuses on early-universe cosmology, foundations of quantum theory, and history of modern physics.
Jamie Karthein
Postdoc
Manki Kim
Postdoc
David Kolchmeyer
Postdoc
Morgane Konig
Postdoc
Ho Tat Lam
Postdoc
Michael Landry
Postdoc
Kyle Lee
Postdoc
Wonjun Lee
CTP Graduate Student
Benjamin Lehmann
Postdoc
Adam Levine
Postdoc
Shing Yan Li
CTP Graduate Student
Joshua Lin
CTP Graduate Student
Yin Lin
Postdoc
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.
Angus Lowe
CTP Graduate Student
Di Luo
Postdoc
Daniel Mark
CTP Graduate Student
John Martyn
CTP Graduate Student
Johannes Michel
Postdoc
Joseph Minahan
Research Visitor
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
Postdoc
Marianne Moore
CTP Graduate student
Scott Morley
CTP Assistant Director
Mark Mueller
Research Visitor
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
Brian Nord
Visiting Faculty
Patrick Oare
CTP Graduate Student
Dimitra Pefkou
CTP Graduate Student
Saul Pilatowsky Cameo
CTP Graduate Student
Wenzer Qin
CTP Graduate Student
Krishna Rajagopal
William A. M. Burden Professor of Physics
Probing the properties, microstructure and phase diagram of hot QCD matter, the primordial liquid.
Daniel Ranard
Postdoc
Dan Roberts
Research Visitor
Fernando Romero-Lopez
Postdoc
Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld
CTP Graduate Student
Stella Schindler
CTP Graduate Student
Alexander Schmidhuber
Graduate Student
Phiala Shanahan
Class of 1957 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics
Research focuses on particle and nuclear theory and applying machine learning to understand the fundamental interactions of nature.
Tracy Slatyer
Professor of Physics
Research focuses on dark matter - novel theoretical models, predicting observable signals, and analysis of astrophysical and cosmological datasets.
Jonathan Sorce
Postdoc
Manu Srivastava
CTP Graduate Student
Thomas Steingasser
Postdoc
Rachel Steinhorst
CTP Graduate Student
Iain Stewart
Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professorship in Science
Professor of Physics
Director, Center for Theoretical Physics
Professor of 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
Eugene Tang
Postdoc
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
Professor of Physics
Theoretical particle physicist who fuses techniques from QFT and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics.
Sokratis Trifinopoulos
Postdoc
Julian Urban
Postdoc
Nicolas Valdes
CTP Graduate Student
Nicole Wales
CTP Graduate Student
Annie Wei
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...
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.
Tianci Zhou
Postdoc
Alexander Zlokapa
CTP Graduate Student
Barton Zwiebach
Professor of Physics
Contributed to the early work on the construction of open string field theory and then developed the field theory of closed strings.