Vita

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, August 2019

  • Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

  • Dissertation: ‘‘Many-body quantum dynamics and non-equilibrium phases of matter’’

  • Adviser: Ehud Altman

• University of California, Berkeley, 2016

  • M.A. in Physics. GPA: 4.0

• Princeton University, 2014

  • A.B. in Physics, magna cum laude. Physics GPA: 3.93; overall GPA: 3.82

  • Senior thesis: ‘‘Phase transitions and classical-quantum mixing in the satisfiability problem’’

  • Adviser: Shivaji L. Sondhi

Awards and Honors

• The Erwin Hahn Graduate Fellowship in Physics, UC Berkeley, 2018

• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2016

• Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics, Princeton University, 2014

• Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton University, 2013

• Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton University, 2012

• Dean’s List for ‘‘the outstanding record cumulated in the course of the academic year,’’ Princeton University, 2013, 2012, and 2011

• Best Romanian Student Abroad in North-America, The League of Romanian Students Abroad, 2012

• Prize Leprince-Ringuet for Excellence in Physics, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, 2010

Teaching

• Physics 137B: Quantum Mechanics II (undergraduate course). Part II of the introduction to the methods of quantum mechanics Spring 2018

• Physics 212: Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics (graduate course). Theory of many-particle systems, critical phenomena and renormalization group, theory of phase transitions, time-dependent processes, kinetic equations, and transport processes Spring 2017

• Physics 7B: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (undergraduate course). Introduction to electromagnetism Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014

Qualifications and interests

• Analytical: field theories, many-body path integrals, perturbation theory, large-\(N\) techniques, exact solutions, phenomenology, stochastic processes

• Programming and numerical: Python, MATLAB, C++. Extensive use of the Lawrencium Linux computing cluster

• Languages: English, Romanian, French

• Referee for Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, and Nature Communications. Member of the American Physical Society and the Alexander Hamilton Society. Previous vice-president of the Romanian Students and Scholars Association at Princeton

• Bronze Medal at the IJSO 2006. Krav Maga P3. Member of the IPhO extended team and various prizes at the National Physics Olympiads (2005-2010). Diploma of Excellence from the Romanian Government (2010)

References

• Prof. Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley

• Prof. Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University

• Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University

• Prof. Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University