Leo Radzihovsky
Biography
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 in the
Department of Physics.
His current
research interests include degenerate atomic gases,
soft-condensed matter (such as liquid crystals,
membranes and polymers), superconductivity, magnetism and general questions that
arise in condensed matter systems, especially fluctuation
phenomena, disorder, phase transitions, topological defects and nonequilibrium
dynamics. Radzihovsky is a Sloan and Packard Fellow and is a Simons Investigator. His research
is supported by the National Science Foundation and by the James Simons Foundation.