Rahul Nandkishore

Rahul Nandkishore is a theoretical physicist interested in a broad range of problems, from non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, to exotic phases of matter, to effects arising from interplay of interactions and disorder in both solid state and synthetic quantum systems. He received his PhD in 2012 from MIT, then spent three years at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science as a postdoctoral fellow, before moving to a faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has been ever since. He is Professor of Physics at Boulder, and Fellow of the Boulder Center for Theory of Quantum Matter.  He is known for his work on graphene and Dirac semimetals, on many body localization, on fracton phases of matter, on constrained quantum dynamics, and on quantum games. His research has been recognized by numerous awards including Young Investigator awards from the U.S. Department of Defense, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, and the Anatoly Larkin Award in theoretical physics.