Leonid Glazman, Donner Professor of Physics and professor of applied physics in FAS, and Priya Natarajan, the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and professor of physics in FAS, were among nine Yale faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Leonid Glazman, the Donner Professor of Physics and professor of applied physics in FAS, is a member of the Yale Quantum Institute. His research area is quantum condensed matter theory. He is especially interested in dynamic properties of quantum low-dimensional interacting systems, such as low-dimensional quantum fluids, topological materials, and various condensed matter implementation of qubits. He collaborates with Yale experimental groups in the field of quantum information and with research groups outside of the university. His numerous honors include a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists and a Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation. He is the McKnight Presidential Chair of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Priyamvada Natarajan, the Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and professor of physics in FAS, is an astrophysicist whose research is in cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics. She has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the coupling of the visible and dark universe, including the formation, fueling, feedback, and assembly history of supermassive black holes and their larger-scale cosmic context, and mapping dark matter substructure in clusters of galaxies. Her research focuses on confronting and testing theoretical ideas with observational data in astrophysics. She is the chair of the Department of Astronomy and director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities at Yale. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships and is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This article was excerpted from the Yale News story of April 19, 2023 by Susan Gonzalez. Please see below for a link to the full story and other related links.