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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 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)

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 Jyesta     Jyesta Adhidewata (jyesta_adhidewata@berkeley.edu)

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

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

Photo of Eugene     Yu-Hsuan (Eugene) Lin (yuhsuanlin1123@berkeley.edu)

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

Sam Judah Reynolds (sjreynolds@berkeley.edu)

Photo of Siddharth     Siddharth Tiwary (siddharthtiwary@berkeley.edu)

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

Photo of Kevin     Kevin Wen (kcwen11@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 (faculty, Hiroshima; personal site)); Yu-Ping Lin (IonQ); Johannes Mitscherling (MPI-PKS, Dresden); Michał Papaj (faculty, University of Houston); Nicholas Sherman (Blue Qubit); Marc Vila Tusell (Barcelona); Thais Victa Trevisan (faculty, Sao Paolo); Chris Wächtler (Madrid/Maryland, personal site); Yanqi Wang (postdoc, JQI)

An action photo from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass:

 Moore Group