Franco Nori is a physicist who has contributed to various fields within theoretical physics and quantum information science.[1]
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| Born | 1956 Genoa, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
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Early Life and Education
editFranco Nori was born in Venezuela and pursued his undergraduate education at Universidad Simón Bolívar, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Physics in 1982. He then moved to the United States to further his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning his M.S. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1987.[2]
Academic and professional career
editFollowing his doctoral studies, Nori completed postdoctoral research at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (now known as the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1990, he joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has held various academic positions, including Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the Physics Department.[3]
Since 2013, Nori has been a Chief Scientist at the RIKEN Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory in Wako, Japan.[4]
Research Contributions
editFranco Nori's research encompasses quantum computing, quantum information processing, and the dynamics of complex systems. He has contributed to the study of hybrid quantum circuits, superconducting qubits, and quantum simulations. His work on the dynamical Casimir effect and relativistic electron vortex has appeared in Nature and Physical Review Letters.[5]
Honors and Awards
editNori is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Institute of Physics (IOP) in the UK, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the Matsuo Foundation Award in 2014, the Prize for Science and Technology by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in 2013, the W.E. Lamb Award in 2023, and the Charles Townes Medal in 2024.[6][7][8]
Publications
editFranco Nori's publications include:
References
edit- ^ "Franco Nori - Top Italian Scientist in Physics". topitalianscientists.org. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Franco Nori | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Franco Nori | U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory | RIKEN". www.riken.jp. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Franco Nori". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "FRANCO NORI - Prize for Research in Physics, Matsuo Foundation, Japan. For research on: "Atomic physics and quantum optics using superconducting quantum circuits." - Awards - researchmap". researchmap.jp. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ Xiang, Ze-Liang; Ashhab, Sahel; You, J. Q.; Nori, Franco (2013-04-09). "Hybrid quantum circuits: Superconducting circuits interacting with other quantum systems". Reviews of Modern Physics. 85 (2): 623–653. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.85.623.
- ^ Lambert, Neill; Chen, Yueh-Nan; Cheng, Yuan-Chung; Li, Che-Ming; Chen, Guang-Yin; Nori, Franco (2012-05-04), Functional quantum biology in photosynthesis and magnetoreception, doi:10.48550/arXiv.1205.0883, retrieved 2024-08-08
- ^ "Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit". researchgate.