Martin Zwierlein

Martin Zwierlein is a German physicist who is a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.^[1][2]

Martin Zwierlein
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Bonn École normale supérieure Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	ultracold atoms
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Atomic Physics Ultracold Atoms
Thesis	High-temperature superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas (2007)
Doctoral advisor	Wolfgang Ketterle
Website	web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/zwierlein_martin.html

Education and career

Zwierlein was educated at the University of Bonn and the École Normale Supérieure.^[2] He obtained his Ph.D. at MIT under Wolfgang Ketterle. Afterwards, he was briefly a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Immanuel Bloch at Mainz University.^[3]

Zwierlein joined the MIT department of physics in 2007 and was promoted to full professor in 2013.^[3]

He is a pioneer in the study of ultracold atomic Fermi gases and molecules.

He was won numerous awards for his work, including the I. I. Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society in 2017,^[4] and the TOPTICA BEC Junior Award in 2021^[5]