Mike Zaletel
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Michael Zaletel joined the Department of Physics faculty in July 2018 and is the Thomas and Alison Schneider Chair. An Oakland native, he received his AA from Deep Springs College, his AB with highest honors in physics from Harvard University in 2009, and his Ph.D. at Berkeley working with Professor Joel Moore. In 2017, after a postdoctoral position in the quantum computing division of Microsoft Research at Station Q in Santa Barbara, he joined the faculty at Princeton Physics in 2017. He says he is excited to be returning to Berkeley as the Thomas and Alison Schneider Chair in Physics.
Zaletel received the William L. McMillan Award for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics in 2018.