Alexander Balatsky

Professor

Department of Physics

Education

• Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Russia, 1987
• M.Sc., Theoretical Physics, Moscow Physical Technical Institute, Russia, 1984
• B.Sc., Physics, Moscow Physical Technical Institute, Russia, 1982

Research Focus

• Quantum materials, Dirac materials, superconductivity, multiferroic
• quantum imaging
• noise spectroscopy
• materials informatics
• DNA spectroscopy

Honors

• Senior Fellowship of Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, March-April 2003
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Achievement Award, September 1997; 2000
• Senior Fellowship of Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, March-April 2003
• J. Robert Oppenheimer fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory: 1991-1994