Susan Coppersmith

Susan Coppersmith, a theoretical condensed matter physicist, received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, performed postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratories and AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. She was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey (USA), a Professor at the University of Chicago, and a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a Professor at UNSW Sydney in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Coppersmith’s research has focused on a variety of complex condensed matter systems driven far from thermal equilibrium. Over the past two decades her major research focus has been on the development of quantum computers using silicon technology similar to that used for current electronic devices.

Dr. Coppersmith has served as Chair of the Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee of the National Research Council of the US, as Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and of the Topical Group for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of the American Physical Society, as Chair of the Section on Physics of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences.

Dr. Coppersmith has been elected to be a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.