| Victor Galitski | |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State University William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute |
| Fields: | Theoretical physics Condensed matter physics |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Anatoly Larkin |
| Prizes: | Simons Investigator Award[1] NSF CAREER award George Soros Fellowship ARC Future Fellowship --> |
Victor Galitski is a Russian-American physicist, a theorist working in the area of quantum physics.
Galitski earned his PhD in applied math (under Prof. Dmitry Sokoloff from the Math Faculty in Moscow State University) and a PhD in quantum physics under Prof. Anatoly Larkin. Galitski was later a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has been on the faculty at the University of Maryland since 2005, where he is now a Chesapeake Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute there, an honorary professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a foreign partner of the Australian ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).
Galitski has been awarded the NSF career award, Simons Investigator award,[2] the Open Society Fellowship, and the Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council.His notable researches include the 2010 prediction of topological Kondo insulators.[3] [4] [5] In 2006, he introduced a new kind of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate.[6] [7] In 2007, together with University of Maryland coworkers including Sankar Das Sarma, Galitski resolved the minimal conductivity puzzle in graphene physics.[8] Together with Gil Refael, Galitski co-introduced Floquet topological insulators.[9] [10]
In July 2021, Galitski published a viral essay on linkedin, entitled "Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Science,"[11] cautioning about unsupported, inflated claims in the quantum computing industry and the dangerous possibility of "quantum Ponzi schemes."
Victor Galitski was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of Jewish, German, and Russian ancestry. His grandfather Victor Galitskii was a renowned physicist,[12] [13] who worked with Lev Landau,[14] and Arkady Migdal, and was director of the theoretical physics department in the Kurchatov Institute.