Joel Moore

Professor of Physics

Joel Moore is Chern-Simons Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and a Senior Faculty Scientist in Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division. His work seeks to understand the properties of quantum materials, in which electrons show remarkable emergent properties thanks to quantum mechanics. These materials underlie a wide variety of quantum information technologies. His theoretical work includes analytical and computational approaches to various classes of topological and correlated materials.

In recent years his work has been increasingly influenced by the application of quantum information concepts such as entanglement entropy, in addition to the use of materials as platforms for quantum information science. He also studies dynamical processes such as new kinds of hydrodynamics enabled by quantum mechanics.

He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2001 and joined Berkeley and LBNL in 2002 after postdoctoral research at Bell Laboratories. He is a Simons Investigator and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was previously a Hertz Fellow and an elected APS Member-at-Large. He is a Core Advisor of Berkeley's Faculty Link program and currently directs the Center for Novel Pathways to Quantum Coherence in Materials (NPQC, http://npqc.lbl.gov), a DOE EFRC.