Aditi Mitra obtained her B.Sc. in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta (1993), her M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur (1995), and her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington (2002). After postdoctoral research at Columbia University and the University of Toronto, she joined NYU in 2006. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2018), a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (2013), and a Mercator Guest Professor at the University of Cologne (2022). She has made seminal contributions to non-equilibrium quantum systems, particularly Floquet dynamics, operator spreading, and non-equilibrium universality. Her recent work on non-invertible symmetries in periodically driven systems has shed light on foundational principles for non-ergodicity in Floquet matter.
Paul Fendley received his B.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbana and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1990). Following postdoctoral positions at Boston University (1990–1993) and the University of Southern California (1993–1996), he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia (1997–2014) before joining the University of Oxford in 2014. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, and a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award. He pioneered the theory of non-invertible symmetries on the lattice, and his work on topological defects and dualities has provided deep connections between quantum field theory and lattice models.
Lukasz Fidkowski received his B.S. in Mathematics from Harvard University (2001) and his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University (2007). He was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and a researcher at Microsoft Station Q before joining Stony Brook University as an assistant professor in 2013. He moved to the University of Washington in 2019. He is the recipient of a New Horizons in Physics Prize (2020) and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2015). He has made foundational contributions to the classification of topological phases, pioneering the application of quantum cellular automata to classify dynamical phases, including the groundbreaking discovery of nontrivial 3D quantum cellular automata that cannot be realized by constant-depth circuits.
Sarang Gopalakrishnan received his B.A. from Amherst College (2006) and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2012). Following postdoctoral positions at Harvard (2012–2015) and Caltech (2015–2016), he held faculty appointments at the City University of New York (2016–2020) and Penn State (2021–2022) before joining Princeton in 2022. He is an NSF CAREER Award recipient (2017) and a Senior Investigator at the Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. He has made deep contributions to understanding anomalous thermalization, many-body localization, and entanglement dynamics in open and monitored quantum systems, discovering new universality classes with no equilibrium analogue.
Isaac Kim received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech (2013). After postdoctoral positions at the Perimeter Institute, IBM, and Stanford, and work as a quantum architect at PsiQuantum, he was a lecturer at the University of Sydney before joining UC Davis in 2021. He is a Sloan Fellow (2026) and NSF CAREER Award recipient (2026). He co-founded the entanglement bootstrap program, applying it to discover new topological invariants and achieve rigorous classification of ground states and mixed-state phases. He simultaneously continues to propose innovative fault-tolerant quantum computing codes and state preparation protocols.
Sanjay Moudgalya received his B.S. from IIT Kanpur (2015) and his Ph.D. from Princeton University (2020). He was a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Research Associate at Caltech (2020–2023) and a Junior Group Leader at TU Munich (2023–2026), where he was a START Fellow at the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (2023). He joined TIFR Mumbai in 2026. He has made foundational contributions to understanding ergodicity breaking in quantum many-body systems, including the first theoretical prediction of quantum many-body scars and the discovery of Hilbert-space fragmentation and anomalous hydrodynamics in constrained quantum systems.
Abhinav Prem received his B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California (2013) and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder (2018). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2022–2025) before joining Bard College. He is a Scialog Fellow in Quantum Matter and Information (2026). Alongside pioneering the study of non-Abelian fracton phases, he has discovered and classified intrinsically mixed-state topological orders and proposed scalable protocols for noise-resilient topological memories.
Nathanan Tantivasadakarn received his B.A. from UC Berkeley (2016), his M.Sc. from the Perimeter Institute (2017), and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (2022). He was a Burke Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech before joining Stony Brook University in 2025. He is a recipient of the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize (2023). He co-developed scalable measurement-based protocols for preparing long-range entangled states and pioneered dynamical quantum codes with non-commuting measurements. His work on adaptive circuits has redefined phase classification and enabled the first experimental demonstrations of non-Abelian topological order on trapped-ion processors.
Simon Trebst obtained his Diploma (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) in Physics from the University of Bonn. He was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich (2002–2005) and a research scientist at Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara (2005–2011), before joining the University of Cologne in 2012. He is widely recognized for developing and applying computational techniques to highly entangled states of matter. He pioneered hybrid tensor network/Monte Carlo methods for simulating monitored quantum circuits, enabling the study of measurement-induced phase transitions at unprecedented scales.
Dominic Williamson completed his honours and master’s research at the University of Sydney (2012–2013) and his Ph.D. in Frank Verstraete’s group at the University of Vienna (2017). He held postdoctoral positions at Yale (2017–2019) and Stanford (2019–2021) before returning to Sydney as a DECRA Fellow (2021–present). He has also worked at IBM Research (2024–2025) and PsiQuantum (2025). He combines abstract mathematics with physical intuition to open new directions in quantum error correction — from uncovering novel mechanisms for fractonic matter and partially self-correcting quantum memories in 3D, to developing fault-tolerant logic gates for quantum LDPC codes via gauging.