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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.

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Andrew N. Jordan, PhD

Dr. Andrew N. Jordan is Co-Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies.

 

Professor of Physics.

 

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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."


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Dr. François Englert has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.

David Gross, PhD

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.


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Sir Anthony Leggett has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.

Leonard Susskind, PhD

Justin Dressel, PhD

Matt Leifer, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.

 

Assistant Professor of Physics in Schmid College of Science and Technology.

 

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Kelvin McQueen, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.


Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.


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Nooshin M. Estakhri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Fowler School of Engineering
Affiliate, Physics, Schmid College of Science

Emily Adlam, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Schmid College of Science and Technology; Physics

 

Domenico Napoletani, PhD

Dr. Domenico Napoletani is a computational and data scientist and he is currently a presidential fellow at Chapman University. His main research interest is in the development of a comprehensive approach to natural and data sciences, informed by the study of collective and living systems. He has worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including the foundations of quantum mechanics, the applications of path and phase integrals to analytic geometry and classification problems, the philosophy and methodology of data science, and the structural analogies between developmental biology and economics.
 

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

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Dr. Chahid is a valuable member of Professor Armen Gulian's research team.

Rajendra Dulal, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Dr. Dulal is a valuable member of Professor Armen Gulian's research team.

Serafim Teknowijoyo, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Dr. Teknowijoyo is a valuable member of Professor Armen Gulian's research team.

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.

Stephon Alexander, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies

 

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.

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Brad Dodrill

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.

Vice President of Sales & Senior Scientist at Lake Shore Cryotronics.

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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.

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Gurgen Melkonyan, PhD

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies.
Dr. Melkonyan is a valuable member of Professor Armen Gulian's research team.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Le Hu

Le is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.

Tathagata Karmakar

Tathagata is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.

Spencer Rogers

Spencer is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.

Alok Singh

Alok is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.

John Steinmetz

John is a valuable member of Professor Jordan's research team.

Daniel Briseno

Daniel is a valuable member of Professor Dressel's research team.

Iris Dorn

Member of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Research Assistant.
Iris is a valuable member of Professor Armen Gulian's research team.