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Ali Yazdani is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University and Co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. He also serves as the Director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Yazdani graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, earning his degree in physics, and obtained his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1995. He has taught physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he has established his independent research group before joining the Princeton University Physics Department in 2005. His research focuses on advancing the understanding of emergent quantum phenomena and the development of high-resolution microscopy techniques to directly visualize highly entangled quantum states of matter. Over the years, he has received several prestigious awards, including the Humboldt Research Award and has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, he was honored as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the 2023 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society, recognizing his outstanding theoretical and experimental contributions to condensed matter physics.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Teaching and research in the field of physics.
Stanford University •
Engaging in academic activities in physics.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.