Presenter

Adrian received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University where his research focused on quantum phase transitions in superconductors. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia, and Institute for Quantum Matter; a joint research venture between Johns Hopkins and Princeton University. In 2011 he joined the University of Vermont as an Assistant Professor of Physics and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. From 2019-2020 he served as director of the Vermont Advanced Computing Core, which provides high performance computing facilities to researchers across Vermont. In 2020 he moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a Professor of Physics & Astronomy, with a joint appointment in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research involves the application of high performance computational tools to understand how collective and cooperative states of matter can be harnessed for future quantum technologies.