UF Physics professor Xiao-Xiao Zhang has received an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Xiao-Xiao’s project entitled, “Probing exciton-exciton correlations and phase transitions for spin-polarized excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides,” is funded for five years by the NSF Division of Material Research starting in September 2022. The NSF CAREER […]
Graduate Student Moinul Rahat (Pierre Ramond, advisor) has been awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Maurice C. Holmes and Frances A. Holmes Endowed Fellowship in the amount of $8,000 to be used in Summer 2022. Each fall CLAS awards approximately fifteen one-semester dissertation fellowships to deserving graduate […]
UF Physics is pleased to announce that Dimitri Bourilkov, Associate Scientist, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Dimitri is cited for his “advances in data intensive science using cutting edge computing infrastructure and for foundational contributions to the American Physical Society Topical Group on Data Science.” The APS […]
The Department of Physics invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-accruing position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the interest area of experimental particle physics research conducted at the Large Hadron Collider with the CMS experiment.
Purushottam Dixit, Assistant Professor at UF Physics, has received the highly prestigious Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award, which grants $1.82 million over five years (2021-2026), will support Dr. Dixit’s work on developing […]
Congratulations to UF Physics Assistant Professor Yuxuan Wang who has been awarded the Nevill F. Mott Prize. The Nevill F. Mott Prize is an early career prize awarded by the organizing committee of the Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES) 2020. Yuxuan is cited “for his outstanding contributions to the […]
As part of a campus-wide artificial intelligence (AI) faculty hiring initiative at the University of Florida (UF), the Department of Physics has an opening for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor in artificial intelligence for quantum materials and quantum information science to begin on August 16, 2022.
UF Physics would like to welcome its first Dirac Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Sarbajaya Kundu. Dr. Kundu received her BSc degree from the Presidency College (at the University of Calcutta) in 2013 and her PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2019 (with Prof. Vikram Tripathi). For the last two […]
Physics graduate student Prachi Sharma received the best presentation SIlver Prize for her invited talk “Optical conductivity of a Dirac-Fermi liquid,” given at the international conference “Low-Energy Electrodynamics of Solids” (LEES) in July 2021. Prachi is one of the few graduate students who was invited to speak at this prestigious conference, and […]
From UF PhysTube (Part 1 and 2): Dr. Kathryn McGill speaks with physics undergrads Urja Shah, Bridgette Gifford, and Haben Belai, and Professors Amlan Biswas and Juan Guan about why you should come to UF if you’re considering majoring in physics.