Faculty Spotlight
Leo Radizhovsky: Professor, Department of Physics
Research interests
Leo Radizhovsky develops theories of a broad range of condensed matter, which includes quantum liquids, superconductors, magnets, polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, disordered systems, degenerate atomic gases, quantum molecular chemistry and critical phenomena. The common theme that unifies these topics is the qualitatively important role played by thermal and quantum fluctuations and interactions.
Education and experience
Radizhovsky joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 1995 as an assistant professor of physics. He has served as a visiting professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in California, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. He earned his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1993 and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the James Franck Institute in Chicago.
Quotable and notable
Radzihovsky, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, has been named a Simons Investigator and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has won a fellowship for science and engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a Sloan Research Fellowship in physics from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an award from Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program from the National Science Foundation.
One of Radzihovsky’s peer-reviewed papers was turned into a song by YouTuber Jonathan Mann, who writes a song a day. The song is titled “Quantum Decoupling Transition in a One-Dimensional Feshbach-Resonant Superfluid.”
Leo Radzihovsky