Prof Claudio Castelnovo

Biography

Claudio Castelnovo completed his undergraduate and master studies at the Universita’ degli Studi di Milano in 2000. He received a PhD from Boston University in 2006 and moved to Oxford where he held an EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship. He was hired as a Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London in 2010 and moved to the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 2012, where he was promoted to University Reader in Theoretical Physics in 2015 and to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 2020. In 2002, he won the Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize; in 2012,  the EPS CMD Europhysics Prize for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice; in 2013, the IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize.

Research

I am part of the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory. My interests lie in the area of emergent and out of equilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated many body systems. Current research topics include the effects of hard constraints in classical and quantum systems; freezing and glassiness; response and equilibration properties of systems with fractionalised excitations; frustrated magnetism; topological order, quantum information and quantum computing.