David A. Huse
David Alan Huse (born May 16, 1958) is an American theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical physics and condensed matter. He grew up in Massachusetts, attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, and earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1979. He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1983 under Michael E. Fisher. From 1983 to 1996 he worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1996 he became a professor in the physics department at Princeton University. He has also held research appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2010 and in the academic years 2015–2016, 2019–2020, and 2021–2022.
Huse is considered a world-class expert in statistical physics and quantum many-body physics. He has made important contributions to topics such as phase transitions, spin glasses, and magnetic ordering in materials. His current research interests include ultracold atomic systems, non-equilibrium physics, quantum thermalization, and many-body localization.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2017. In 2022 he received the Lars Onsager Prize, shared with Boris Altshuler and Igor Aleiner, for foundational work on many-body localization, its phase transition, and implications for thermalization and ergodicity.
David Huse married Julia Smith in 1982. They have two sons.
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