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Professor Radzihovsky’s theoretical research interests span a broad spectrum of classical and quantum condensed matter. These range from entropy-dominated liquid crystals, colloids, membranes, rubber and other "soft" matter to quantum matter, such as superconductors, magnets, degenerate atomic gases, quantum Hall and other topological states of matter. He aims to understand the nature of phases and phase transitions exhibited by these systems, with the unifying theme of collective universal behavior that emerges at long scales and low energies, driven by a combination of strong interactions, fluctuations, and/or local heterogeneity.
- Degenerate Atomic Gases
- Liquid Crystals and Other 'Soft' Condensed Matter
- Disordered Systems
- Nonequilibrium Phenomena
- Quantum Hall Effect
- Superconductivity
Over the years this research has been supported by the Sloan and Packard Fellowships, the Simons Investigator Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER and other grants.
Leo Radzihovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1966. He received B.S., and M.S. degrees in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1989, and 1993, respectively. He was an Apker fellow (1988) and at Harvard was supported by Hertz Graduate Fellowship. From 1993-1995 Radzihovsky worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. Since 1995, he has been with the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is currently a Professor of Distinction in the Department of Physics.
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Leo Radzihovsky
Education
- Ph.D. (June 1993) Department of Physics, Harvard University.
- Thesis title: Statistical Mechanics and Geometry of Random Manifolds
- Advisor: David R. Nelson
- M.S. and B.S.(June 1988) Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Thesis title: Quantum Electron Transport in Nondegenerate Semiconductors
- Advisor: Stephen Nettel