Gabriel Kotliar
Gabriel Kotliar (born 1957) is an Israeli-born professor of physics at Rutgers University in the United States who has numerous publications with an h-index of 51.
Early life
Kotliar graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1979, then took his M.Sc. in Physics in 1980. He became a research physicist at Princeton University, where he gained a Ph.D. in Physics in 1983.
Career
His first teaching position was as a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara for two years, 1983 to 1985, when he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Rutgers University in 1988, still as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1992. From 1986 to 1988 he was Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and in 1987 received the Young Investigator Award. In the autumn of 1990, along with Antoine Georges, he developed a quantum impurity model which was based upon dynamical mean field theory. In 1994 he became a Lady Davies fellow, and nine years later accepted a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 he was awarded the Europhysics Prize and after that became a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure, the École Polytechnique, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 2001 he has been a fellow of the American Physical Society and is the author of 51 publications and a co-author of some 200 more.[1]
References
- ↑ "Gabriel Kotliar". Rutgers University. Retrieved December 22, 2013.