Martin W. Zwierlein

Martin W. Zwierlein is the Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics at MIT, affiliated with the Department of Physics. His research focuses on ultracold atomic and molecular gases, exploring their quantum behavior in contexts like superfluidity, strongly correlated systems, and quantum simulation. He earned his doctorate from MIT under Wolfgang Ketterle and has held positions at MIT since 2007.

Education: Studied physics at the University of Bonn and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Doctoral work at MIT (Ketterle group) on ultracold fermionic gases.

Research interests include quantum many-body systems, fermionic superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, and applications to neutron star physics and high-temperature superconductivity. Key contributions involve observing Fermi polarons, quantifying superfluid transitions, and developing quantum gas microscopes.

Awards include the Packard Fellowship (2010), PECASE (2010), and the 2021 BEC Junior Award. His group operates the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and explores topics like chiral edge transport and geometric squeezing in quantum gases.

• Labs/Teams: Atomic Quantum Gases Group
• Grants: Young Investigator Awards from AFOSR, ONR, DARPA (2010)