Joel Moore

Joel Moore is Chern-Simons Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  His work in theoretical physics studies quantum matter with a focus on the remarkable phenomena that emerge as consequences of entanglement and topology.  He received his A.B. in physics from Princeton in 1995 and spent a Fulbright year abroad before graduate studies at MIT.  He then was a postdoc at Bell Labs before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2002.  He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2022), a Simons Investigator (2013-2023), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2013). He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the Quantum Science Center, a National Quantum Information Science Research Center. He previously served as member and chair of the advisory board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.