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Helmut G. Katzgraber

Assistant Professor

Email: hgk[at]tamu.edu
Office Tel: 1-979-845-8532
Office: ENPH 514
Fax: 1-979-845-2590
Mobile: 1-979-229-0444

Personal Website: http://katzgraber.org
Education: Diploma in Physics ETH Zurich (1997), MS in Physics University of California Santa Cruz (1998), PhD in Physics University of California Santa Cruz (2001)

Helmut Katzgraber was born in Lima, Peru and is Austrian citizen. After growing up in Lima, he studied physics at ETH Zurich where he graduated. He received his Ph. D. in Physics in 2001, under the supervision of Prof. A. Peter Young at the University of California Santa Cruz for numerical studies of spin-glass systems. After a one-year PostDoc position with Profs. Gergely Zimanyi and Richard Scalettar at the University of California Davis where he worked on numerical studies of magnetic recording media he returned 2002 to ETH Zurich as a PostDoc in the group of Prof. Gianni Blatter at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. In March 2007 he was awarded an assistant professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2009 he is tenure-track assistant professor in the department. His main research fields in computational physics are the investigation of disordered and complex systems, as well as the study of topologically-protected quantum computing.
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