Jennifer Cano

Jennifer Cano is an Associate Professor of physics at Stony Brook University working in the field of condensed matter theory. Her research is focused on quantum materials. In particular, she studies topological materials, which exhibit fascinating emergent properties such as quasiparticles that behave as a fraction of an electron. She is interested in classifying the landscape of possible topological phases, as well as predicting and studying their material realizations.

Jennifer received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. She then moved to the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, where she was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015–2018. In 2018 she joined the faculty at Stony Brook with a Visiting Scholar appointment at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum physics. She has received a Sloan Research Fellowship and National Science Foundation CAREER award.