Daniel Harlow

Daniel Harlow
Daniel Harlow
Born	Cincinnati, Ohio
Academic background
Education	Columbia University (BA); Stanford University (PhD);
Academic work
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Harlow is the Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1]

Biography

Harlow was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Boston and Chicago. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012.^[2] Before joining MIT's faculty in July 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Harvard University.^[3]

His research is focused on understanding black holes and cosmology, viewed through the lens of quantum field theory and quantum gravity.^[4]

Harlow won the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2019 for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."^[5]^[6]^[7] He was also named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019,^[8] and in 2020, he was named a Packard Fellow.^[9]

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