Lorenza Viola

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Lorenza Viola is an Italian-American theoretical physicist who works in quantum information science at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where she holds the James Frank Family Professor of Physics title. She earned a physics master’s degree from the University of Trento in 1991 and a Ph.D. from the University of Padua in 1996, with a thesis on relativistic stochastic quantization supervised by Laura M. Morato. After postdoctoral work at MIT and Los Alamos National Laboratory, she spent three more years at Los Alamos as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow. Viola joined Dartmouth as an associate professor in 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2012. In 2014, she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her work at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum statistical mechanics, including methods for decoherence control, dynamical decoupling, noiseless subsystems, and studying entanglement in many-body systems.