Daniel L. Harlow
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Daniel Harlow was born in Cincinnati, and grew up in Boston and Chicago. He obtained a BA in physics and mathematics from Columbia University in 2006, a PhD in physics from Stanford University in 2012, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Harvard before joining MIT in July 2017. He is a member of the Simons Foundation "It from Qubit" Collaboration, and is an avid hiker and pianist.
Research Interest
Professor Harlow works on combining quantum mechanics and gravity, focusing on the quantum-mechanical aspects of black holes and cosmology. Recently he has been using methods from quantum information theory to approach these problems, in particular relating the AdS/CFT correspondence—our best theory of quantum gravity so far—to the theory of quantum error correcting codes. He also works on the general mathematical structure of quantum field theory, which despite its venerable age has resisted a fully satisfactory formulation.
