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We seek to advance learning as a diverse collection of mutually respectful individuals.

Principal Investigator

Joel at a desk     Joel E. Moore (jemoore@berkeley.eduCVpersonal site)

Senior Researchers/Emeriti

John L. Cardy (external site), Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Senior Researcher (2016-2023), UC Berkeley

Chandra Varma (cmv@berkeley.edu), Theoretical Physics Research Department, Bell Labs (1968-2003and Distinguished Professor, UC Riverside (2004-2017).  At Berkeley January-May.  Available for discussions on condensed matter theory and experiments. 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Note that postdoctoral researchers often work across multiple groups in Berkeley CMT, with support from a range of sources.

(These lists are continuously under construction/improvement.)

Dan Borgnia

Photo of Elizabeth Dresselhaus     Elizabeth (Lizzy) Dresselhaus (she/her, personal site)

Photo of Yu-Ping Lin     Yu-Ping Lin (yuping.lin@berkeley.edupersonal site)

Chunxiao Liu sitting next to a picture of an elephant    Chunxiao Liu (he/him, chunxiaoliu@berkeley.edu)

Photo of Johannes Mitscherling     Johannes Mitscherling (he/him, j.mitscherling@berkeley.eduLinkedIn)

Photo of Michał Papaj    Michał Papaj (mpapaj@berkeley.edu)

Thaís Victa Trevisan

Photo of Marc Vila Tusell    Marc Vila Tusell (marcvila@berkeley.edu, Google Scholar)

    Chris Wächtler (he/him, cwwaechtler@berkeley.edupersonal site)

Graduate Students

(Only students in their second year or later are listed here; students are encouraged to explore opportunities in their first year.)

Photo of Meabh     Méabh Allen (she/her, meabh_allen@berkeley.edu)

Photo of Noelle     Noelle Blose (she/her, noelle_blose@berkeley.edu)

Yu-Hsuan (Eugene) Lin

Picture of Kai     Kai Klocke (he/him, kai_klocke@berkeley.edu)

Photo of Kevin     Kevin Wang (he/him, kwang98@berkeley.edu)

Picture of Yi Zhao     Yi Zhao (he/him, yi_zhao@berkeley.edu)

Undergraduate Interns

SuryaNeil photo     SuryaNeil Ahuja (he/him, suryaneil.ahuja@berkeley.edu)

Recent Alumni

Alex Avdoshkin (postdoc, MIT); Tessa Cookmeyer (postdoc, KITP); Elizabeth Dresselhaus (postdoc, Berkeley/Georgia Tech); Nicholas Sherman (Steel Perlot); Yanqi Wang (postdoc, JQI)

An action photo from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass:

 Moore Group