Claudio Chamon

Chamon received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finishing in 1996. He was awarded an NSF Early CAREER Award in 1999 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008. His research focuses on strongly correlated quantum matter and the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of classical and quantum systems.

His research winds through the ever-growing field of electron fractionalization, from quantum Hall states that are sustained at large magnetic fields, to a novel type of quantum Hall fluid that he and co-workers theoretically predicted and that were recently observed experimentally to exist at zero magnetic field. He also proposed fractionalization in graphene-like structures.