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Davide Gaiotto
(PhD Princeton University, 2004) joined Perimeter in May 2012. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow
at Harvard University from 2004 to 2007 and a long-term Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
from 2007 to 2012. Gaiotto works in the area of strongly coupled quantum fields and has already made several major
conceptual advances that have potentially revolutionary implications. In 2011, he was awarded the Gribov Medal of the
European Physical Society.
Jaume Gomis
(PhD Rutgers University, 1999) joined Perimeter Institute in 2004, declining a European Young Investigator
Award by the European Science Foundation to do so. Prior to that, he worked at the California Institute of Technology
as a Postdoctoral Scholar and as the Sherman Fairchild Senior Research Fellow. His main areas of expertise are string
theory and quantum field theory. In 2009, Gomis was awarded an Early Researcher Award for a project aimed at
developing new techniques for describing quantum phenomena in nuclear and particle physics.
Daniel Gottesman
(PhD California Institute of Technology, 1997) joined Perimeter’s faculty in 2002. From 1997 to
2002, he held postdoctoral positions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft Research, and the University of
California, Berkeley (as a long-term CMI Prize Fellow for the Clay Mathematics Institute). Gottesman has made seminal
contributions which continue to shape the field of quantum information science through his work on quantum error
correction and quantum cryptography. He has published over 40 papers, which have attracted well over 4,000 citations
to date. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Quantum Information Processing program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research (CIFAR) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Lucien Hardy
(PhD University of Durham, 1992) joined Perimeter as a Faculty member in 2002, having previously held
research and lecturing positions at various European universities including the University of Oxford, Sapienza University
of Rome, the University of Durham, the University of Innsbruck, and the National University of Ireland. In 1992, he found
a very simple proof of non-locality in quantum theory which has become known as Hardy’s theorem. He currently works
on characterizing quantum theory in terms of operational postulates and applying the insights obtained to the problem
of quantum gravity.
Fotini Markopoulou
(PhD Imperial College London, 1998) joined the Institute as one of its first Faculty members in 2001,
prior to which she held postdoctoral positions at the Albert Einstein Institute (2000-01), Imperial College London (1999-
2000), and Pennsylvania State University (1997-99). Markopoulou is a past recipient of First Prize in the Science and
Ultimate Reality Young Researchers Competition in honour of J.A. Wheeler (2001). She was also awarded an Alexander
von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany.
Robert Myers
(PhD Princeton University, 1986) is one of the leading theoretical physicists working in string theory in
Canada. After attaining his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and a Professor of Physics at McGill University, before moving to Perimeter in 2001. He
has made seminal contributions to our understanding of black hole microphysics and D-branes. Among Myers’ many
honours, he has received the Herzberg Medal (1999), the CAP-CRM Prize (2005), and the Vogt Medal (2012). He is
also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Cosmology and Gravity program of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Philip Schuster
(PhD Harvard University, 2007) joined Perimeter’s faculty in 2010. He was a Research Associate at SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory from 2007 to 2010. Schuster’s area of specialty is particle theory, with an emphasis on
physics beyond the Standard Model. He has close ties to experiment and has investigated various theories that may be
discovered at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. With members of the Compact Muon Solenoid
(CMS) experiment at the LHC, he developed methods to characterize potential new physics signals and null results in
terms of simplified models, facilitating more robust theoretical interpretations of data. He is also a co-spokesperson for
the APEX collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia.