Oriol Valls

Oriol Tomas Valls (born 1947 in Barcelona, Spain) is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota.^[1] After obtaining his BSc in Physics at the University of Barcelona he earned a PhD at Brown University, in 1976. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago he held a Miller Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley before joining the University of Minnesota faculty. He specializes in Condensed Matter Theory. He is an American Physical Society fellow since 1998^[2] and has won the APS Outstanding Referee Award.^[1] From 2016 he has also been the Editor of the Newsletter published by the Forum of Physics and Society of the American Physical Society