Biography:Daniel Harlow
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Daniel Harlow is the Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Biography
Harlow was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Boston and Chicago . He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012.[2] He was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Harvard University before joining MIT's faculty in July 2017.[3]
His research is focused on understanding black holes and cosmology, viewed through the lens of quantum field theory and quantum gravity.[4]
He won the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2019 for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."[5][6][7] He was also named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019.[8] In 2020, he was named a Packard Fellow.[9]
References
- ↑ "Daniel Harlow » MIT Physics" (in en-US). https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/daniel-harlow/.
- ↑ "Newsmakers" (in en). 2018-12-27. https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/winter18/article/newsmakers.
- ↑ "School of Science welcomes new faculty members" (in en). 10 October 2017. https://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-school-of-science-welcomes-new-faculty-members-1010.
- ↑ Siegel, Ethan. "Ask Ethan: What Does It Mean That Quantum Gravity Has No Symmetry?" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/06/29/ask-ethan-what-does-it-mean-that-quantum-gravity-has-no-symmetry/.
- ↑ "Speakers and Panelists | Breakthrough Prize Symposium". https://breakthroughprize.berkeley.edu/speakers#:~:text=Daniel%20Harlow%20received%20the%202019,of%20black%20holes%20and%20cosmology..
- ↑ "Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Daniel Harlow" (in en). https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3835.
- ↑ "2019 Breakthrough Prize Honors Pulsar Discovery, 'Multi-Messenger Astronomy' and More" (in en). 2018-10-17. https://www.space.com/42168-breakthrough-prize-pulsars-multimessenger-astronomy.html.
- ↑ "Four from MIT named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows" (in en). 21 February 2019. https://news.mit.edu/2019/four-from-mit-named-sloan-research-fellows-0221.
- ↑ "Daniel Harlow awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship" (in en). 20 October 2020. https://news.mit.edu/2020/daniel-harlow-packard-foundation-fellowship-1020.
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