Description
Bruce Normand is a condensed-matter theorist with broad interests in strongly correlated electronic materials and quantum magnetism. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from MIT, where he worked in the then-nascent field of high-temperature superconductivity. He has worked in Japan, Switzerland and Germany, and before moving to PSI was a professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He has contributed significantly to the study of magnetic quantum phase transitions, quantum spin liquids and the excitation spectra of quantum magnets. Throughout his career he has worked closely at the interface between theory and experiment, in the modelling, interpretation and prediction of observable results, which ensures a good match with the broad spectrum of quantum materials research under way at the large-scale facilities of PSI and elsewhere.
