Event Type: IFIMAColloquium
Title: Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
When: Thursday, 4th June, 2026, at 12:00h
Where: Sala de Grados, Building C, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a renowned condensed matter physicist whose work has fundamentally reshaped the understanding of quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) materials. He was awarded his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Universitat de València in 1999, followed by a Master of Science in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2001. He completed his doctoral training at TUDelft in the Netherlands, where he was awarded his PhD in 2005. Following the completion of his doctorate, he joined Columbia University as a Nano Research Initiative Fellow, prior to being appointed to the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He is currently occupying the Cecil and Ida Green Endowed Chair in Physics at MIT.
He is currently holding a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona. In the context of MIT, he fulfils the following roles: Co-Director of the MIT Quantum Initiative, Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and member of the Executive Committee of the Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals. He is also the founder and organiser of the Rising Stars in Physics workshops. These symposia have been developed to provide support to researchers who are in the early stages of their careers. The events are hosted by the following institutions: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley and Columbia.
