Oriol Tomas Valls (born 1947 in Barcelona, Spain) is a
physics professor at the
University of Minnesota.
After obtaining his
BSc in Physics at the
University of Barcelona he earned a PhD at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, in 1976.
After a postdoctoral position at the
University of Chicago he held a Miller Fellowship at
the
University of California Berkeley before joining the
University of Minnesota faculty. He specializes in Condensed Matter Theory. He is an
American Physical Society
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fellow since 1998
[ (search on year=1998 and institution=University of Minnesota)] and has won the APS Outstanding Referee Award.
From 2016 he has also been the Editor of the Newsletter published by the Forum of Physics and Society of the
American Physical Society
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Living people
1947 births
Fellows of the American Physical Society
University of Minnesota faculty
Brown University alumni
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