Antoine Georges, born in 1961 in Paris, was a student at the École Polytechnique (1980-1983), before joining the Theoretical Physics Laboratory at the École Normale Supérieure in 1984, where he defended his thesis in 1988. He was a researcher in this laboratory until 2003, first as a research fellow and then as director of research at the CNRS. In 2003, he set up a research team on the physics of materials with strong quantum correlations at the École Polytechnique's theoretical physics center. He is a professor at the École polytechnique, and chaired the physics department from 2006 to 2009. Antoine Georges was appointed Professor of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics at the Collège de France in 2009. He spent many years abroad, from 1989 to 1991 as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University (USA), then as a visiting researcher and professor (in particular in the USA - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Rutgers University -, and in Switzerland - EPFL; University of Geneva).
Research - Scientific interests
After a brief stint in high-energy physics, Antoine Georges' research until 1990 focused on the statistical physics of disordered systems. In particular, he studied non-Brownian diffusion processes in highly inhomogeneous media. Since 1990, he has focused on the physics of strongly correlated quantum systems. This field of research covers a wide range of materials: transition metal oxides (such as "high critical temperature" superconducting copper oxides), rare-earth and actinide compounds, organic conductors, nano-structured materials such as quantum dots or oxide heterostructures. This field has also recently moved closer to that of quantum optics, with the study of ultra-cold atoms, particularly when trapped in optical lattices. Antoine Georges is one of the co-inventors of the "DynamicalMean-Field Theory" approach, which has led to advances in our understanding of these highly correlated materials. He has collaborated with numerous experimental teams in France and abroad (in particular at the Laboratoire de physique d'Orsay, the Laboratoire matériaux et phénomènes quantiques at the Université Paris-VII and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the ENS). For further information, please visit the research team's website.
