Speakers

George Booth (King's College London)

George Booth is a professor of theoretical physics at King's College London, having joined the physics department at King’s College London in October 2014. His interests lie primarily in computational electronic structure theory, with a particular focus in novel computational techniques that push the state of the art in both classical and quantum algorithm development. With a background in both chemistry and physics perspectives in this area, particular interest is the development of scalable approaches for extended systems and stochastic methods, working at the intersection of traditional quantum chemistry and numerical physics approaches.

Patrick Pietzonka (University of Edinburgh)

Patrick works on the thermodynamics of small fluctuating systems. He got his PhD in 2018 from the University of Stuttgart, followed by postdoc positions at the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. In 2023, he started as a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh. He is the recipient of the European Physical Society Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Early Career Prize 2023.

Francesco Turci (University of Bristol)

Francesco Turci is a physicist specialising in soft matter and statistical physics. He is a Lecturer in Scientific Computing at the School of Physics, University of Bristol, where his research focuses on arrested dynamics, phase transitions, and nonequilibrium phenomena in complex systems. He employs computational and theoretical methods to study how structure and dynamics interplay in materials ranging from colloids to active matter. He has contributed to understanding dynamic heterogeneity, glass transitions, and aggregation phenomena in active matter.

Fatmanur Ünal (University of Birmingham)

Nur Ünal is an assistant professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previously, she held Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Royal Society Newton Fellowships at the University of Cambridge, postdoc positions at the Max-Planck Institute PKS in Germany and has been an exchange student at Cornell University during her PhD obtained from the Bilkent University. Her work revolves around condense matter systems with a specific focus on quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases, investigating various novel phenomena including topological systems, out-of-equilibrium dynamics, Floquet, superconductivity, localisation, synthetic gauge fields, fractional quantum Hall and non-Abelian physics.