Louis Taillefer is a Professor Emeritus at the Université de Sherbrooke, in Québec, Canada, where he leads a research group specialized in the experimental investigation of quantum materials – such as superconductors and metals with strongly correlated electrons – at very low temperature and in high magnetic fields.
He has received a number of awards, including the Killam Prize in natural sciences (2012), the Simon Memorial Prize in low-temperature physics (2017) and the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize in superconductivity (2018), for pioneering experimental work in superconductivity, in particular the discovery of multicomponent superconductivity, quantum oscillations and quantum critical points in heavy-fermion and copper-oxide superconductors. In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Taillefer has fostered collaborative research at the international level, as Director of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) from 1998 to 2019 (and as co-director from 2019 to 2025), a highly interactive network bringing together researchers from Canada, Asia, Europe and the US, to explore and understand phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity, topological protection, magnetic frustration and Planckian dissipation. Since 2022, he has been Director of the Quantum Frontiers Lab, an International Research Lab (IRL) created by the French CNRS to develop and support collaborations with researchers in France within the field of quantum materials and quantum information.
Research website: https://www.physique.usherbrooke.ca/taillefer/index_eng.html