About

Eddy Ardonne received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2002. In the summer of 2002, he started as a postdoc at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, followed by a postdoc at Caltech starting in 2005. During this last postdoc, he joined the research group "Microsoft Station Q" in Santa Barbara for just over a year. In december 2007, Eddy joined Nordita as an assistant professor. Eddy's research focusses on strongly correlated electron systems in low dimensions. In particular, he is interested in topological phases of matter, which occur in the fractional quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. Of great interest are the various phase transitions into topological phases. He studies such phase transitions by lattice models in low dimensions, which sometimes can be solved by means of the Bethe Ansatz. In addition, he is interested in the symbiosis between the physics and the mathematics needed to describe topological phases in general.

Eddy has strong collaborations with scientists at universities in Stockholm and Olso, as well as several prime institutions in the United States. Eddy has co-organized several meeting at Nordita during the past few years, in addition to a winterschool and a Nobel Symposium on Graphene and Quantum Matter. He will co-organize a future meeting on Topological States of Matter: Insulators, Superconductors, and Hall Liquids.

Eddy has been teaching a graduate course on Conformal field Theory at Albanova (which he will teach again in the fall of 2011), as well as an undergraduate course on Electromagnetism.