Meet the team

While my training is in condensed matter theory (see this accompanying page for biographical information), I am excited to explore the intersection with other fields of physics—such as high-energy physics via the emergence of gauge theories in entangled systems, or with atomic physics to propose the realization of many-body phenomena in engineered quantum systems. When I am not catching up on emails, I enjoy doing physics, listening to podcasts, and learning about the mind.

I am broadly interested in topological phases of matter and using probes of entanglement to characterize many-body systems both in and out of equilibrium. I obtained my BSc at the University of Toronto in 2016 and my PhD in Eduardo Fradkin’s group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. I then worked in Shinsei Ryu’s group at Princeton University as a postdoc from 2021-2024 before returning to the Midwest. Outside of physics, I enjoy reading, cooking, and dabbling in martial arts.

Physics has taken me on a fascinating intellectual and emotional journey, from “La Sapienza” in Rome and SISSA in Trieste, Italy, to JGU in Mainz, Germany, and now to UChicago in the USA. I am passionate about investigating quantum phases of matter and dynamical phenomena, and devising ways to realize and harness them in experiments. I also enjoy coming up with simple analogies to explain my work to friends and family, including my grandpa!