Dr. Nir Navon

Biography

Nir Navon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Yale University. He received his undergraduate degree from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, followed by a Master’s degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. In 2011, he obtained his Ph.D. from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he developed novel methods to probe the thermodynamics of ultracold strongly correlated gases. Following his doctoral studies, Navon conducted research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, where he worked on developing high-fidelity entangling gates for trapped ions. He was later elected as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College in Cambridge, UK, and joined the Cavendish Laboratory, where he explored the equilibrium and non-equilibrium behaviors of homogeneous gases of weakly interacting bosons using innovative optical box trapping techniques. Since joining Yale's Department of Physics in 2017, his lab has primarily focused on the quantum many-body problem, utilizing synthetic ultracold matter and programmable traps as a versatile experimental platform for studying the emergence of order in collective phenomena of homogeneous quantum matter and understanding the turbulent dynamics of quantum fluids in far-from-equilibrium conditions.

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