Mikhail Lukin

Mikhail Lukin is a physicist at Harvard University. He earned his MSc degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and his PhD from Texas A&M University, USA. Following postdoctoral work, he became an assistant professor of physics at Harvard University in 2001. Today, he is the Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor, co-Director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative in Science and Engineering and co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms. His research is in the areas of quantum optics and quantum information science, aimed at controlling strongly interacting atomic, optical and solid-state systems, studying quantum dynamics of many-body systems and exploring novel applications in quantum computing, simulations, quantum communication and metrology.

Mikhail Lukin is a 2023 Falling Walls Winner in the Physical Sciences category.