Lea Ferreira dos Santos

Associate Department Head for Administration and Professor

Department of Physics

Research Interests

many-body quantum systems, non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, thermalization, quantum chaos, spin systems, many-body localization, quantum phase transition, quantum transport, quantum control, decoherence, quantum-classical correspondence

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Education

• Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, University of São Paulo, 2000
• M.Sc., Theoretical Physics, University of São Paulo, 1994
• B.Sc., Physics, University of São Paulo, 1991

Experience

• 2022-present: Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
• 2007-2022: Professor, Department of Physics, Yeshiva University
• 2004-2007: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Dartmouth College
• 2002-2004: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Michigan State University
• 2000-2001: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Yale University

Honors

• 2009-2012: KITP Scholar
• 2012-2017: NSF CAREER Award
• 2015: Cottrell Scholar
• 2021: Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics