Biographical Information

Bruno Nachtergaele (PhD K.U. Leuven, 1987). After holding several research and faculty positions at the K.U. Leuven, University of Chile, and Princeton University, he joined the University of California at Davis in 1996 where he is currently Professor of and Chair of Mathematics. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, 2002, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Since January 2009, he has served as Vice-President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics. His general research area is Mathematical Physics. His main interests are equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum spin systems, quantum information, and applications of these fields in condensed matter physics. He has held visiting positions at the Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK), the CNRS (Luminy, France), Erwin Schrodinger Institute (Vienna), ETH (Zurich), University of Marseille, The Courant Institute (New York University), and the University of Bologna. He is the editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics.