Prof. Subir Sachdev
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton - Photo Copyright – Gabriela Secara
Prof. Subir Sachdev’s research is focused on condensed matter physics. It describes the connection between properties of modern quantum materials and the quantum entanglement of electrons. He has made extensive contributions to the description of the diverse varieties of entangled states of quantum matter. Many of these contributions have been linked to experiments, especially to the rich phase diagrams of the high temperature superconductors. He has also developed a connection between entanglement in quantum matter, and the properties of black holes in theories of quantum gravity.
He attended college at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; B.S. in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University. He held professional positions at Bell Labs (1985–1987) and at Yale University (1987–2005), where he was a Professor of Physics, before returning to Harvard, where he is now the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics. During 2021-22 he is also the Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
He has been elected to national academies of science in India and the U.S. and is a recipient of a number of awards and honors which include: Dirac Medals from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 2018, and the University of New South Wales, 2015; Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society (APS), 2018; Abdus Salam Distinguished Lecturer, ICTP, Italy, 2014; Hendrik Lorentz Chair, Lorentz Institute, 2012; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2003; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1989; and LeRoy Apker Award (APS) Recipient, 1982.