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Yakir Aharonov, PhD
Dr. Yakir Aharonov is Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University,
and also holds the honorary title of James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy and Theoretical Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology. Furthermore,
he also serves as Distinguished Visiting Research Chair with the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, another prominent research organization hosting an international
retinue of renowned members.
- Witness Dr. Aharonov receiving the National Medal of Science from President Obama, as recognition for contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, and for drawing out unexpected implications of that field, ranging from the Aharonov-Bohm effect to the theory of weak-measurement. »
- Dr. Aharonov received the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for contributing to the co-discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect, a cornerstone for modern physics. »
- Watch Dr. Aharonov's Perimeter Institute presentation - "Finally making sense of Quantum Mechanics, part 1." »
Jeff Tollaksen, PhD
Dr. Jeff Tollaksen is Co-Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies, as well as
Professor of Theoretical Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Before arriving at Chapman, Dr. Tollaksen worked in the School of Computational Science
at George Mason University. His research has been published in many scientific journals
and he currently serves as prime investigator of several grants.
Andrew N. Jordan, PhD
Dr. Andrew N. Jordan is Co-Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Professor of Physics.
Armen Gulian, PhD
Dr. Armen Gulian is the Senior Research Scientist and Director of Chapman University's
Advanced Physics Laboratory, located in Burtonsville, Maryland. His scientific career
began with a PhD and post-doctoral research on non-equilibrium phenomena in superconductors
and superfluids with Nobel Laureate Vitaly Ginzburg.
Before setting up Advanced Physics Laboratory for Chapman, Dr. Gulian founded the Laboratory of High-Temperature Superconductivity at the Physics
Research Institute, Armenia (overseeing the world's first observation of phase-slip centers in high-temperature
superconductors). Dr. Gulian has also worked on development of quantum detectors at
US Naval Research Laboratory, where he suggested a theoretical design and experimental
demonstration of cryogenic detector prototypes for X-ray/UV single-photons.
Read Dr. Gulian's Curriculum Vitae and review his list of many publications, including prediction of "photon deficit" effect (important for development of electronic coolers); theory of superconducting quantum generators (potential application for terahertz radiation imaging and high-resolution acoustic imaging); prediction of interference current at hydrodynamic description of superconductivity (important for superconducting nano-wires).
Sir Michael Berry, FRS, PhD
Sir Michael Berry, FRS, is Melville Wills Professor of Physics Emeritus, at University of Bristol. He is well known for the discovery of the Berry-phase, the sister-phenomenon to the Aharonov-Bohm phase.
Sir Michael Berry was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982.
Dr. Berry officially became Sir Micahel Berry by royal recognition from Queen Elizabeth II, appointing him Knight Bachelor during Birthday Honours in 1996.
Sir Michael Berry has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2012.
Scott Chapman, PhD
Scott Chapman is the son of Trustee C. Stanley Chapman and great-grandson of university namesake C.C. Chapman. An alumnus of McKinsey & Company, he co-founded Project Hosts, a successful computer business and consulting company which provides IT outsourcing.
Scott received his undergraduate degree from Yale in physics and then acquired a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. After graduation, he traveled Europe and later led talks at physics conferences around the world.
Scott is a member of the Board of Trustees of Chapman University and serves as the chair of the Digital Resources Committee.
Paul Davies, PhD
Dr. Paul Davies is the Director of The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts of Science at Arizona State University. The Beyond Center is "devoted to confronting the really big questions of science and philosophy."
Dr. Davies is also Principal Investigator of ASU's Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer
Biology, one of 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers nationwide established by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute.
He has received many awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper implications of science, the 2001 Kelvin Medal from the UK Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Michael Faraday
Prize from the Royal Society for promoting science to the public.
Dr. Davies has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
François Englert, PhD
Dr. Englert shares the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs, "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider."
Dr. François Englert has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since
2011.
David Gross, PhD
Dr. David Gross shares the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, honored for his role in discovering "asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction."
Dr. Gross is the Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KTIP), and the first incumbent of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at UC Santa
Barbara.
Dr. Gross has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
Sir Anthony Leggett, FRS, PhD
Sir Anthony Leggett shares the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, honored "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
Dr. Leggett officially became Sir Anthony Leggett by royal recognition from Queen Elizabeth II, appointing him a Knight Commander of
the Order of the British Empire during Birthday Honours in 2004.
Sir Anthony Leggett was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.
Sir Anthony Leggett has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
Sandu Popescu, PhD
Dr. Sandu Popescu is Professor of Physics at University of Bristol.
Dr. Popescu was awarded the Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture prize by the Royal Society in 2004, and later appointed a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder by the Royal Society in 2012 for work on quantum non-locality.
Dr. Popescu has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
Leonard Susskind, PhD
Dr. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and the Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Dr. Susskind has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2012.
Roman Buniy, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Associate Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Justin Dressel, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Program Director of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science
and Technology.
John Howell, PhD
Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Matt Leifer, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Assistant Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Kelvin McQueen, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Mordecai "Cai" Waegell, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Instructional Assistant Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Dr. Waegell is a valuable member of Professor Aharonov's research team.
- Dr. Waegell's presentation at the 3rd International Symposium about Quantum Mechanics based on "Deeper Level Theory" in Vienna, Austria. »
- Watch Dr. Waegell's Perimeter Institute presentation - "Confined contextuality: How specific counterfactual paradoxes in pre- and post-selected Kochen-Specker sets give rise to experimentally observable consequences." »
Ahmed Sebbar, PhD
Dr. Sebbar is the D.C. Struppa chair in Mathematics. Dr. Sebbar joined Chapman University , as a Full Professor, in 2018. He came from Bordeaux University in France, where he spent over 30 years as Professor of Mathematics.
In Mathematics, he is working in Geometric Function Theory, Number Theory and Fourier Analysis. In Physics he is interested in some problems of Optics, Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics.
Nooshin M. Estakhri, Ph.D.
Emily Adlam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Schmid College of Science and Technology; Physics
Domenico Napoletani, PhD
Dr. Napoletani has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2013.
Luis Sanchez Soto, PhD
Luis Sanchez-Soto studied physics at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where he received his M. Sc. (Honors) in theoretical physics in 1984 and his Ph. D. in Quantum Optics in 1988. His thesis was awarded the Summa cum Laude mention. He went on to become an Assistant professor at the Universidad Complutense in 1989, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1991 and Full Professor in 2002. Since then, he is the director of the Quantum Optics and Information Group at that University.
He is a regular invited researcher in numerous Universities, such as Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (Paris), Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), University of Ottawa (Canada), and University of Palermo (Italy), to cite only a few.
Since 2005, he has been the Leader of the group QTeC (Quantumness, Tomography, Entanglement, Codes) at the Division of Quantum Information Processing (Gerd Leuchs) in the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen, Germany).His fields of research span the range from modern aspects of classical optics to quantum optics and quantum information. His application of the quantum Fisher information to determine the fundamental limits in quantum metrology is widely recognized as an important discovery. He has been involved in phase-space formulation of quantum optics and semiclassical dynamics. He is Fellow of the Royal Spanish Physical Society, and Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).
Bibek Bhandari
Dr. Bhandari is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.
Sara Chahid, PhD
Rajendra Dulal, PhD
Serafim Teknowijoyo, PhD
Ismael De Paiva, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies
Alumnus of the Computational and Data Sciences Ph.D. program at Chapman University. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Bar-Ilan University in the group of Professor Eliahu Cohen.
Alexia Auffeves, PhD
Indrajit Sen
Dr. Sen is a theoretical physicist who works in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
His doctoral research focused on the question whether there exist alternatives to
quantum nonlocality in a single-universe framework. His research interests include
hidden-variable models that circumvent Bell's theorem, the relationship between quantum
mechanics and the theory of relativity, and experimental and theoretical methods to
differentiate various classes of hidden-variable models. He holds a Ph.D. in physics
from Clemson University.
Mark Bashkansky, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Dr. Bashkansky is employed as a civilian scientist in the Naval Research Laboratory for the Department of Defense. He is interested in basic and applied research in the fields of laser physics, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and optical techniques for the nondestructive evaluation of materials.
Fabrizio Colombo, PhD
Dr. Fabrizio Colombo is Professor of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Dr. Colombo is a Managing Editor of the Institute for Quantum Studies journal, Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations.
Dr. Colombo has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum
Studies since 2011.
Brad Dodrill
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Vice President of Sales & Senior Scientist at Lake Shore Cryotronics.
Avshalom Elitzur, PhD
Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur was born in 1957 in Iran, from where his family emigrated
to Israel. He did his PhD in Tel-Aviv University with Yakir Aharonov. Among his works
are the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing experiment (with Lev Vaidman), quantum oblivion
(with Eliahu Cohen), the quantum liar paradox (with Aharonov, Smoli et al.), and the
disappearing and reappearing particle (with Aharonov et al.). His other published
papers deal with diverse issues in life and behavioral sciences, such as the thermodynamics
of living systems, suicide prevention and the mind-body problem. He is one of the
founding members of Iyar, the Israel Institute for Advanced Research in Lod, Israel.
Jerry LaRue, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Schmid College of Science and Technology.
- Dr. LaRue is the Principal Investigator of Catalysis Research Laboratory at Chapman University.
Gurgen Melkonyan, PhD
Shmuel Nussinov, PhD
Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Nussinov is on the Editorial Board of the Institute for Quantum Studies journal, Quantum Studies: Mathematics
and Foundations.
Dr. Nussinov has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum
Studies since 2011.
Irene Sabadini, PhD
Dr. Irene Sabadini is Professor of Geometry at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Dr. Sabadini has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum
Studies since 2011.
Yutaka Shikano, PhD
Dr. Yutaka Shikano is Project Associate Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo in Japan.
Dr. Shikano has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2012.
Irfan Siddiqi, PhD
Irfan Siddiqi received his AB (1997) in chemistry & physics from Harvard University.
He then went on to receive a PhD (2002) in applied physics from Yale University, where
he stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until 2005. Irfan joined the physics department
at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2006. In 2006, Irfan was
awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. prize by the American Physical Society for the development
of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier. In 2007, he was awarded the Office of Naval
Research Young Investigator Award, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, and the UC Berkeley
Chancellor’s Partnership Faculty Fund.
Aephraim Steinberg, PhD
Professor of Physics at University of Toronto.
Lev Vaidman, PhD
Dr. Lev Vaidman is the Alex Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems at Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Vaidman has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum
Studies since 2011.
Howard Wiseman, PhD
Dr. Howard Wiseman is Professor of Physics, as well as Director of Centre for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University, Australia.
Dr. Wiseman is Program Manager at Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (ARC Centre of Excellence).
Dr. Wiseman's awards include the Bragg Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics in 1995, the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science in 2003, and the Malcom Macintosh Medal in 2003 (one of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science). He is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Dr. Wiseman has been an Affiliated Scholar, and Member, of the Institute for Quantum
Studies since 2016.
Shiva Barzili
Shiva is a valuable member of Professor Dressel's research team.
Lukas Burns
Lukas is a valuable member of Professor Dressel's research team.
Abhishek Chakraborty
Abhishek is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.
Robert Czupryniak
Robert is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.
Alok Singh
Alok is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.
Daniel Briseno
Daniel is a valuable member of Professor Dressel's research team.
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