Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is currently Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics in January 2008 and received tenure in 2015. He was promoted to Full Professor of Physics in 2018. His research interests lie in the area of experimental condensed matter physics, in particular quantum electronic transport and optoelectronics in novel two-dimensional materials, with special emphasis on investigating their superconducting, magnetic, and topological properties.

The Jarillo-Herrero Lab is delving into the enigmatic realm of 2-dimensional materials, with an emphasis on unlocking the secrets of superconductivity, ferroelectricity, magnetism, and topological physics within 2D van der Waals heterostructures and moiré quantum matter. Armed with an arsenal of experimental tools, from transport measurements to optical spectroscopy and clever nanofabrication techniques. The lab is pursuing the fundamental properties of 2-dimensional materials to pioneer cutting-edge electronic devices and shape the future of technology.

Jarillo-Herrero has received the American Physical Society 2020 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, the 2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, the 2021 Max Planck Humboldt Research Award, and the 2021 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery.

He received his “Licenciatura” in physics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1999. Then he spent two years at the University of California, San Diego, where he received an M.S.c. degree before going to the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2005. After a one-year postdoc in Delft, he moved to Columbia University, where he worked as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow.