Kristjan Haule

Kristjan Haule is a Distinguished Professor of theoretical condensed matter physics at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He then completed his PhD work at the University of Ljubljana and Karlsruhe University in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Rutgers, and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, University Professor in 2012, and Distinguished Professor in 2018. His achievements include being named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2008-2010, receiving an NSF Early Career Award in 2008, and the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence in 2009. In 2013, he was honored with the prestigious Blavatnik Award for his theoretical and computational studies of strongly correlated electron systems. He was also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019.

Research projects: Professor Haule’s research specialties are in condensed matter theory, with a major interest in the electronic structure theory for correlated electron solids and the development of an algorithm that combines dynamical mean-field theory and density-functional theory. He is especially known for the development of predictive theories for correlated electron solids and the implementation of the powerful Embedded DMFT (EDMFTF) code. Dr. Haule joined Comscope in 2015 and supports the center with his EDMFTF software. As a researcher, he works in theoretical condensed matter physics, focusing on the development of theoretical tools, concepts, and algorithms to describe and predict the behavior of many-body quantum systems. His work also includes studying the properties of solids under extreme conditions and searching for novel quantum states.