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BIO:

Ali Yazdani is known for his research in advancing our understanding of emergent quantum phenomena by application and development of high-resolution microscopy techniques to directly visualize highly entangled quantum states of matter. He started his own independent research group at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1997 before joining Princeton’s physics department in 2005. Yazdani has held visiting professorships at different universities including at Cambridge University (UK) and has been a Loeb Lecturer at Harvard and an Einstein Lecturer at the Weissman Institute in Israel. For his research accomplishments, he has been recognized with several awards and honors including a Humboldt research award and has been elected a fellow of American Physical Society, American Association for Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences.