Subir Sachdev

Subir Sachdev
Born	2 December 1961 New Delhi
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S) Harvard University (Ph.D)
Known for	Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model
Awards	LeRoy Apker Award (1982) Sloan Fellowship (1989) Guggenheim Fellowship (2003) National Academy of Sciences (2014) UNSW Dirac Medal (2015) Lars Onsager Prize (2018) ICTP Dirac Medal (2018) Royal Society (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter theory
Thesis	Frustration and Order in Rapidly Cooled Metals  (1985)
Doctoral advisor	D. R. Nelson
Website	sachdev.physics.harvard.edu

Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics^[1] at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023. He was a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2017–2019,^[2][3] and is Editor-in-Chief of Reports on Progress in Physics 2022-.

Sachdev's research describes the consequences of quantum entanglement on the macroscopic properties of natural systems. He has made extensive contributions to the description of the diverse varieties of entangled states of quantum matter, and of their behavior near quantum phase transitions. Many of these contributions have been linked to experiments, especially to the rich phase diagrams of the high temperature superconductors. Sachdev's research has exposed remarkable connections between the nature of quantum entanglement in certain laboratory materials, and the quantum entanglement in astrophysical black holes, and these connections have led to new insights on the entropy and radiation of black holes proposed by Stephen Hawking.