Sagar Vijay

Sagar Vijay graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 2013, and received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018.  He was subsequently a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, before joining  UCSB’s physics department in 2020.  He is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, and the 2023 William L. McMillan Award for outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics.

Research

Sagar is currently interested in topics at the intersection of quantum condensed matter physics and quantum information science.  Recent areas of focus include far-from-equilibrium quantum dynamics, universal properties of highly-entangled quantum matter, and quantum error-correction.