Netta Engelhardt

Netta Engelhardt (Hebrew: נטע אנגלהרדט) is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist known for her work resolving the black hole information paradox, concerning the apparent loss of physical information from objects that enter black holes and become transformed into Hawking radiation.^[1] She is the Biedenharn Career Development Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2]

Netta Engelhardt
נטע אנגלהרדט
Nationality	Israeli-American
Education	Brandeis University (B.Sc., 2011) University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D., 2016)
Awards	Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists New Horizons in Physics Prize Sloan Research Fellowship US Department of Energy Early Career Award Gribov Medal
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	MIT
Doctoral advisor	Gary Horowitz

Education and career

Engelhardt was born in Jerusalem later moved with her family to Boston in 1998.^[2][3] She graduated from Brandeis University in 2011 majoring in both physics and mathematics^[4] and completed her Ph.D. in 2016 at the University of California, Santa Barbara advised by Gary Horowitz.^[2][4] After postdoctoral research at Princeton University, she joined MIT in 2019.^[2]

Recognition

Engelhardt was a 2019 winner of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.^[5] She was one of the 2021 winners of the New Horizons in Physics Prize, "for calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation".^[6]