Dr. Duncan Haldane

Biography

Duncan Haldane is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for his theoretical discoveries in topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1978 and joined the Princeton faculty in 1990. Prior to his position at Princeton, Haldane held various postdoctoral professorships at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, San Diego. His main research interests focus on strongly-interacting quantum many-body condensed-matter systems, where he has explored non-perturbative methods and the geometry of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE). He has also modelled wavefunctions and quantum states related to FQHE, Topological Insulators, and Chern Insulators. Haldane has been elected a Fellow of various organizations, including the American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society London, Institute of Physics in the UK, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Alongside the Nobel Prize, he has received numerous accolades such as the Dirac Medal and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.

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