Piers Coleman

Professor Piers Coleman is a leading theoretical condensed matter physicist affiliated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. He serves as Director of the Hubbard Theory Centre and is a member of the Centre for Materials Theory at Rutgers. His research focuses on emergent phenomena in quantum materials, including strange metals, topological superconductivity, and strongly correlated electron systems. A prolific researcher with 56 publications, his work intersects quantum criticality, fractionalization, and novel phases of matter.

His recent publications highlight innovative approaches to spin fractionalization in Kondo insulators, critical charge modes in strange metals, and stripe superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene. He has received research funding from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, enabling groundbreaking studies in quantum materials. Coleman's contributions to condensed matter theory have been widely recognized through citations and collaborations, with a notable presence in high-impact journals like Nature and Science.