- Position
- Full Professor
- Speciality
- Theoretical Physics
- Field
- Quantum computer, Quantum simulation
- Institution
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Research Page
- https://sites.dartmouth.edu/lorenzaviola-group/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenza-viola-27710952/?isSelfProfile=true
- Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aoZ0mC8AAAAJ&hl=en
Short bio
Lorenza Viola is a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum information science. Following a “Laurea” (MS) degree in physics from the University of Trento, Italy, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1996, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 2000 and then a J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2004, she joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, where she is now the James Frank Family Professor of Physics. Her research interests span a range of topics within quantum information physics and quantum statistical mechanics — including methods for noise characterization and control in open quantum systems and quantum computation, quantum sensing and metrology, quantum phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Viola has been the Director of the Quantum Information Science Initiative at Dartmouth for twenty years, and has held various leadership positions within the Division of Quantum Information. For her pioneering contributions in quantum science, she has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014.