David Pekker

David is a quantum physicist and computational scientist currently on leave from his position as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has extensive research experience in the areas of quantum matter and chemistry, dynamics of quantum systems, quantum computation and fluid dynamics. After earning his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, David worked as a postdoc at Harvard University and was the Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He is also one of the founding principal investigators of the Quantum Biology program at the University of Pittsburgh.