Dr. Joel Moore

Biography

Joel Moore joined the physics department faculty as an assistant professor in January 2002. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Princeton University in 1995 and spent a Fulbright year abroad during his graduate studies at MIT and Bell Labs. In 2022, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been a Simons Investigator from 2013 to 2023. He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013 and holds the Chern-Simons Professorship. Additionally, he serves as a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on condensed matter physics, particularly the properties of quantum materials and electron-electron interactions. He investigates the topology of wave functions that yield new states of matter, exploring zero-temperature quantum phase transitions and correlated quantum states. Moore seeks to understand how correlated quantum states transport charge, spin, and heat, frequently employing concepts from quantum information theory and entanglement entropy to analyze problems in condensed matter physics. His theoretical work benefits from the increasing quality and quantity of experimental data, and he encourages students in his group to interact with experimental efforts both at Berkeley and beyond.

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