Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born June 11, 1976, in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

) is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at

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 ...

(MIT).

Biography

Jarillo-Herrero received in 1999 his

Licenciatura A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels. It may be similar to a master's degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universities in Europe, Latin Ame ...

in physics from the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

in Spain. Then he was two years at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, where he received a MSc in 2001. In 2005 at the

Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

in The Netherlands he earned his PhD, and continued on to a postdoc. In 2006 he moved to

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, where he worked as a ''NanoResearch Initiative Fellow''. In January 2008 he joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics and received tenure. In 2018 he was promoted to Full Professor of Physics. In 2018 Jarillo-Herrero presented a new 2D-platform to investigate strongly correlated physics, based on

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

moiré superlattices. When Twistronics, two graphene sheets are twisted by an angle close to a ''magic angle'' theoretically predicted by Allan MacDonald and

Rafi Bistritzer Rafi Bistritzer (born 1974 in Israel) is an Israeli physicist, and manager of an algorithms group at Applied Materials. He is the winner of the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, together with Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Alan MacDonald, for “pioneering ...

, the resulting flat band structure near the

Dirac point Dirac cones, named after Paul Dirac, are features that occur in some electronic band structures that describe unusual electron transport properties of materials like graphene and topological insulators. In these materials, at energies near ...

gives rise to a strongly-correlated electronic system. His research demonstrated electrically tunable superconductivity in this system of pure

carbon Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon mak ...

and without an applied magnetic field.

Honors

* Elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2022) * Hanna Visiting Professor, Stanford University (2022) * Ford Lecturer, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2022) * Pimentel Leturer, University of California Berkeley (2021) * Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science (2017–2022) * Fellow of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2019) * Member at Large of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (2019) * APS Fellow (2018)

Prizes and awards

* 2022 Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research, Israel * 2021 Max Planck Humboldt Research Award, Germany * 2021 NIMS Award, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan * 2021 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery *2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal,

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*2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society *2020

Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. ...

*2020 APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics PrizeAPS: ''Laudatio'' *2020 Moore Foundation Investigator in Quantum Materials Award *2018 Breakthrough of the Year Award winner by Physics World *2014 Moore Foundation Investigator in Quantum Materials Award *2013 ONR Young Investigator Award *2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) *2011 DOE Early Career Award *2010 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics *2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship *2008 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship *2008 NSF Career Award *2006 Spanish Royal Society Young Investigator Award (2006)

Works

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External links

Jarillo-Herrero Group am MIT

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo 1976 births Living people People from Valencia Spanish physicists University of Valencia alumni Delft University of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Wolf Prize in Physics laureates Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences