Abhay Narayan Pasupathy

Abhay Pasupathy's group works on experimental quantum materials research. Materials with strong correlations are especially interesting, but there are plenty of interesting open problems in weakly correlated materials as well! Of late, various kinds of two-dimensional materials and heterostructures (very popular at Columbia) are a big chunk of the research conducted in the group. Scanning probe microscopy is a major experimental tool, with the group building and operating several scanning tunneling microscopes. The group also fabricates samples of various 2D materials, and performs transport measurements. An important aspect of research in the group is collaboration with other groups on campus who share the same interests. Students and postdocs almost always will find themselves in collaborative work, which (hopefully) is fun for all. 

He is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and a principal investigator with Columbia's Department of Energy EFRC on Programmable Quantum Materials and Columbia's National Science Foundation MRSEC on Precision-Assembled Quantum Materials. He is also a co-director of Columbia's M.S. in Quantum Science and Technology and a Group Leader at Brookhaven National Laboratory.