Olumakinde Ogunnaike received his B.A in Physics and Math from Harvard University in 2013. He then completed an MSt. in Philosophy of Physics at Oxford in 2018. Most recently, he received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2024. He is now a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley.
I am interested in condensed matter theory, particularly at the intersection of many-body dynamics, open quantum systems, and quantum information theory. Broadly speaking I investigate quantum matter, in which interactions and quantum entanglement between the particles can give rise to unexpected emergent properties. My recent work uses techniques from statistical physics of equilibrium systems to describe the dynamics of quantum systems subject to decoherence and measurement.