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Richard Allen

Graduate Student

Elba Alonso-Monsalve

Graduate Student

Nina "Galit" Anikeeva

Graduate Student

Philipp Benjamin Aretz

Graduate Student

Verena Bellscheidt

Graduate Student

Sean Benevedes

Graduate Student

Miguel Benitez

Graduate Student

En-Hung Chao

Postdoc

Anthony Chen

Postdoc

Hao Chen

Postdoc

So Chigusa

Postdoc

Soonwon Choi

Victor F. Weisskopf 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.

Barry Cimring

Graduate Student

Wentao Cui

Graduate Student

Bryce Cyr

Postdoc

Ross Dempsey

Pappalardo Fellow

William Detmold

Professor of Physics
Graduate Program Faculty Coordinator
Interests are in strong interaction dynamics in theoretical particle and nuclear physics.

Jean Du Plessis

Graduate Student

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 (1982-2018)
Present interest is the theory of quantum computation.

Anna Ferdinand

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.

Yang Fu

Postdoc

Jeffrey Goldstone

Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Famous for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation.

Wenjie Gong

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.

Matias Gutierrez Escobari

Graduate Student

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.

Aram Harrow

Professor of Physics
His research focuses on quantum information and computing.

Ellie Hughes

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 (1974–2021)
Best known for his research on the quark substructure of matter.

Brian Jiang

Graduate Student

David Kaiser

Professor of Physics
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science (STS)
Research focuses on early-universe cosmology, foundations of quantum theory, and history of modern physics.

Arjun Kudinoor

Graduate Student

Adam Levine

Postdoc

Shing Yan Li

Graduate Student

Yao Li

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.

Yunchao Liu

Postdoc

Benjamin Lou

Graduate Student

Angus Lowe

Graduate Student

Zhiyao Lu

Graduate Student

Raji Mamade

Graduate Student

Daniel Mark

Graduate Student

Xoan Mayo

Postdoc

Joseph Minahan

Research Visitor

Marianne Moore

Graduate student

Scott Morley

CTP Assistant Director

Mark Mueller

Research Visitor

Ivri Nagar

Graduate Student

Richard Nally

Pappalardo Fellow

John Negele

Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1971–2014)
Interested in lattice field theory to solve QCD and thereby understand the structure of nucleons in terms of their quark and gluon constituents.

Joshua Ott

Graduate Student

Robert Perry

Postdoc

Saul Pilatowsky Cameo

Graduate Student

Krishna Rajagopal

William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics
Probing the properties, microstructure and phase diagram of hot QCD matter, the primordial liquid.

Alexander Schmidhuber

Graduate Student

Phiala Shanahan

Associate Professor of Physics
Research focuses on particle and nuclear theory and applying machine learning to understand the fundamental interactions of nature.

Shu-Heng Shao

Assistant Professor of Physics
Focuses on generalizing the symmetry principle in quantum field theories and lattice models, with applications in HEP, CMT, and quantum gravity.

Ruohan Shen

Graduate Student

Tracy Slatyer

Professor of Physics
Director, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics -- a Leinweber Institute (CTP-LI)
Research focuses on dark matter - novel theoretical models, predicting observable signals, and analysis of astrophysical and cosmological datasets.

Ananda Smith

Graduate Student

Manu Srivastava

Graduate Student

Rachel Steinhorst

Graduate Student

Iain Stewart

Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science
Designs and applies Effective Field Theories to describe physics at collider experiments and to explore the structure of quantum field theory.

Aneca Su

Graduate Student

Charles Suggs

Senior Editorial Assistant

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.

Nicolas Valdes

Graduate Student

Pieter van Steenweghen

Graduate Student

Marco Venere

Graduate Student

Aditi Venkatesh

Graduate Student

Matteo Votto

Postdoc

Frank Wilczek

Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Post-Tenure (2000-2024)
2004 Nobel Laureate
Known for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and more...

Adam Wills

Graduate Student

Bingtian Ye

Postdoc

Ruoyi Yin

Graduate Student

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.

Daiming Zhang

Graduate Student

Rui Zhang

Postdoc

Xiaoyuan Zhang

Pappalardo Fellow

Ying Zhao

Postdoc

Rosemary Zielinski

Graduate Student

Alexander Zlokapa

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.