Joel Moore received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001 and joined UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2002 after a postdoc at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies. He was promoted to tenure in 2007 and is currently the Chern-Simons Professor of Mathematical Physics. His work is primarily on the theory of correlated and topological states of electrons in solids, with applications to their transport, optical, and quantum coherent properties. Areas of his scientific contributions include the theory of topological phases and their electromagnetic responses, the role of quantum entanglement in understanding quantum matter analytically and computationally, and the nature of coherent quantum dynamics in many-body systems. He has been an NSF CAREER and Fulbright grantee and is an elected Member of the NAS, a Fellow of the APS, and a Simons Investigator. He is former chair of the science advisory board for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and has chaired or co-chaired reports for the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
Research website: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/joel-moore