
Dr. Antoine Georges
CCQ Director, Flatiron Institute
Antoine Georges is a Professor at Collège de France, Paris (chair of Condensed Matter Physics) and the Director of the newly founded Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation in New York. He also has a joint appointment with the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from École Normale Supérieure in 1988. While his early research concerned the statistical mechanics of disordered systems, his main focus has been on the physics of quantum materials in which electron-electron interactions are strong.
Dr. Georges is one of the co-inventors of dynamical mean-field theory, for which he shared the 2006 Europhysics Condensed Matter Prize. This theory has deeply transformed our understanding of these materials and our ability to explain, calculate and predict their physical properties. He also received the 2007 Silver Medal of the CNRS, the 2014 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics as well as a major Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Research website: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-antoine-georges/index.htm