Lorenza Viola is an Italian-US theoretical physicist who works in

quantum information science Quantum information science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the analysis, processing, and transmission of information using quantum mechanics principles. It combines the study of Information science with quantum effects in p ...

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

in Hanover, United States as the James Frank Family Professor of Physics.

Education and career

Viola earned a master's degree (''laurea summa cum laude'') in physics from the

University of Trento The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accor ...

in 1991. She completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

with a dissertation ''Relativistic stochastic quantization through co-moving coordinates'' supervised by Laura M. Morato. After postdoctoral research at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and the

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...

, and then working for three more years at Los Alamos as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, she joined Dartmouth as an associate professor in 2004. She was promoted to full professor in 2012.

Recognition

In 2014, Viola was named a

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of American Physic ...

(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Quantum Information, "for seminal contributions at the interface between quantum information theory and quantum statistical mechanics, in particular, methods for decoherence control based on dynamical decoupling and noiseless subsystems and for characterizing entanglement in quantum many-body systems".

References

External links

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Brian Solomon's Guide to the Stars: Physics Professor Lorenza Viola
{{DEFAULTSORT:Viola, Lorenza Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Italian physicists Italian women physicists University of Trento alumni University of Padua alumni Dartmouth College faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society