eth zurich Office: HIT K32.4 Phone: (+41) 44 633 35 80 Fax: (+41) 44 633 11 15 E-mail: click here PGP: [ascii key] Mailing address: Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland texas a&m Office: MPHYS 409 Phone: (+1) 979 209 0729 Fax: (+1) 979 845 2590 E-mail: click here PGP: [ascii key] Mailing address: Department of Physics & Astronomy Texas A&M University, 4242 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA bio Helmut Katzgraber was born in Lima, Peru and is Austrian citizen. After growing up in Lima and completing military duties in the Austrian army, he studied physics at ETH Zurich where he graduated with a Diploma with distinction under the supervision of Prof. Gianni Blatter. He received his PhD in Physics in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. A. Peter Young at the University of California Santa Cruz for numerical studies of spin-glass systems. After a one-year postdoctoral position with Profs. Gergely Zimanyi and Richard Scalettar at the University of California Davis where he worked on numerical studies of magnetic recording media, he returned to ETH Zurich in 2002 as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Gianni Blatter at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2007 he was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship and in 2009 he joined Texas A&M as a tenure-track assistant professor. In 2011 he received an NSF CAREER award and since 2012 he is an associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Texas A&M University. His main research fields in computational physics are the investigation of disordered and complex systems, as well as the study of topologically-protected quantum computing. mini-cv • Oct. 1992 - Apr. 1997 Diploma in Physics (ETH Zürich) • Oct. 1997 - Jun. 1998 Master of Science (UC Santa Cruz) • Jun. 1998 - Aug. 2001 Doctor of Philosophy (UC Santa Cruz) • Oct. 2001 - Oct. 2002 Postdoctoral Researcher (UC Davis) • Oct. 2002 - Mar. 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher (ITP ETH Zürich) • Mar. 2007 - Mar. 2013 Assistant Professor (SNF, ITP ETH Zürich) • Jan. 2009 - Aug. 2012 Assistant Professor (Texas A&M University) • Sep. 2012 - Associate Professor (with tenure, Texas A&M University) • full CV
Helmut Katzgraber was born in Lima, Peru and is Austrian citizen. After growing up in Lima and completing military duties in the Austrian army, he studied physics at ETH Zurich where he graduated with a Diploma with distinction under the supervision of Prof. Gianni Blatter. He received his PhD in Physics in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. A. Peter Young at the University of California Santa Cruz for numerical studies of spin-glass systems. After a one-year postdoctoral position with Profs. Gergely Zimanyi and Richard Scalettar at the University of California Davis where he worked on numerical studies of magnetic recording media, he returned to ETH Zurich in 2002 as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Gianni Blatter at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2007 he was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship and in 2009 he joined Texas A&M as a tenure-track assistant professor. In 2011 he received an NSF CAREER award and since 2012 he is an associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Texas A&M University. His main research fields in computational physics are the investigation of disordered and complex systems, as well as the study of topologically-protected quantum computing.
