Prof. Dr. Yan V. Fyodorov

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics,Theoretical Physics
KeywordsDisordered Systems, Statsitical Mechanics, Anderson Localization, Random Matrices, Quantum Chaos and Chaotic Scattering

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
InstitutionKing's College London
InstituteDepartment of Mathematics

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Hans-Jürgen SommersFakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen
Prof. Dr. Martin ZirnbauerInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/1991

Programme(s)

1990Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2005Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Yan V. Fyodorov is an expert in the field of electronic transport and statistics of disordered quantum systems at the micrometer and nanometer scale. In particular, he has made important contributions to the statistical modelling and analysis of chaotic scattering in open quantum systems. He is the co-winner of the 1999 Henri Poincare / Gauthier-Villars Prize in Theoretical Physics. As a Humboldt awardee, Fyodorov plans to apply techniques from random matrix theory to the investigation of the complexity of the random energy function in glassy-type models.