Peter J. Hirschfeld

Distinguished Professor of Physics
Director of Institute for Fundamental Theory
Secretary-Treasurer, APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics

Web of Science ResearcherID A-6402-2010
ORCID 0000-0003-0375-7386cy

Peter Hirschfeld received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1985 and held postdoctoral research appointments at the Technical University of Munich and Stanford University/UCSD before joining the faculty at the University of Florida in 1988. He has also served as visiting professor for a semester or more at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Augsburg, University of Paris-Sud, Stanford University, the University of Frankfurt, Niels Bohr Institute at U. Copenhagen, and Columbia University since then. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students and taught physics at all levels.

Selected Honors:
Leverhulme visiting professorship 2023-2024
Jesse Beams Research Award of Southeastern Section of APS 2023
John Bardeen Prize 2022 (shared with Mohit Randeria and Joerg Schmalian)
University of Florida Term Professor 2016-19, 2021-24
Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award, 2014
Mercator Professorship of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 2013-14
University of Florida Teacher/Scholar of the Year 2012-13 (1 award university-wide)
University of Florida Col. Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professorship, 2012-13
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 2007-2009
Fellow of American Physical Society, 2004--
Friedrich-Bessel Prize of Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation, 2001