Babak Seradjeh: CV

Professional Path

2011–	Assistant Professor, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2008–2011	Postdoctoral Research Associate, ICMT, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2006–2008	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia. Advisor: Prof. Marcel Franz.
2000–2006	PhD in Physics, Simon Fraser University. Advisor: Prof. Igor Herbut.
1994–2000	BSc and MSc in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Awards and Achievements

2008–2010	NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Mar 2006	Industrial R&D Fellowship, NSERC (not taken).
2002–2004	Four Graduate Fellowships, Simon Fraser University.
1995–1998	Undergraduate Scholarship, IPM, Tehran, Iran.
Sep 1998	Second Place, Physics Subject, Nation-wide Examination for Graduate Studies, Iran.
Sep 1994	First Place, Physics Subject; Second Place, General, Nation-wide University Entrance Examination, Iran.

Invited Presentations

“Transport signatures of Floquet Majorana fermions in driven topological superconductors”
Feb 2013	Workshop on ‘Topological Phenomena in Quantun Dynamics and Disordered Systems,’ BIRS, Banff, AB [watch the video (MP4)]
“Topological exciton condensate”
Oct 2012	Colloquium, Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN.
Apr 2012	CMT Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Mar 2012	CM Seminar, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Feb 2010	Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX.
“Majoarana fermions in topological superconductors: creation, detection, manipulation”
Nov 2011	Lecture, cinciNNI meeting, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
“Anyons in a weakly interacting system”
Aug 2011	CMP Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
“Unpaired Majorana fermions in layered topological insulators”
Aug 2011	Patio discussion, Workshop on ‘New Topological States of Quantum Matter,’ Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO.
“Finding Majorana: Realizing and detecting Majorana fermions in topological superconductors”
Feb 2011 Feb 2011 Feb 2011	Colloquium, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. Seminar, Indiana University – Bloomington, IN. Colloquium, Oklahoma University, Norman, OK.
“Fractionalization in correlated phases of topological insulators”
Jan 2010	Condensed Matter Seminar, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
“Bismuth at high magnetic fields: new surprises and simple explanations”
Sep 2009	Condensed Matter Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
“Vortices, zero modes and fractionalization in bilayer-graphene exciton condensate”
Sep 2008 Jul 2008	ICMT Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Workshop on ‘Quantum Computation with Topological Phases of Matter,’ BIRS, Banff, AB.
“Fractional charge and statistics of topological defects in time-reversal invariant systems”
Jun 2008 Feb 2008	Quantum Information Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
“Fractionalization of charge and statistics in weakly-interacting, T-invariant systems”
Jan 2008 Nov 2007	Condensed Matter Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Condensed Matter Seminar, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
“Electron fractionalization in condensed matter systems with weak interactions and time-reversal symmetry”
Jul 2007	Informal Condensed Matter Seminar, MIT, Boston, MA.
“Anyons in a weakly interacting condensed-matter system”
May 2007	CIAR Quantum Materials Summer School, Vancouver, BC.
“Effective theory of a phase-fluctuating d-wave superconductor”
May 2006 May 2006	Condensed Matter Theory Lab, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. D-Wave Systems Inc, Burnaby, BC.
“Spin response in a phase-fluctuating d-wave superconductor”
Apr 2006	CMT Lunch Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
“QED₂₊₁ and high-T_c superconductivity”
Dec 2004	Knowledge Diffusion Network Series, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Spoken Languages

Persian — Native. English — Fluent. Français — Intermédiaire. Deutsch — Fortgeschrittener.

Last updated: 12 February 2013.