Professor Peter Hirschfeld

University of Florida, USA
Peter Hirschfeld received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1985 and held postdoctoral research appointments at the Technical University of Munich and Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of Florida in 1988.  He has also served as visiting professor for a semester or more at U. Karlsruhe, U. Augsburg, U. Paris-Sud,  Stanford University, the University of Frankfurt, Louisiana State U., U. Copenhagen, and U. Oxford since then. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students and taught physics at all levels. In 2022 he was awarded the John Bardeen Prize for Theoretical contributions to Superconductivity.