Chaitanya Murthy
- Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020
- Office Location
- Bausch & Lomb Hall
Biography
Chaitanya received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2011 and an M.S. in nanoengineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. He then resolved to be a theoretical physicist, and received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2020 under the guidance of Prof. Mark Srednicki and Prof. Chetan Nayak. After a Moore postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where he was mentored by Prof. Steven Kivelson, Chaitanya joined the University of Rochester in 2024 as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Research Overview
Professor Murthy's research is in the general field of theoretical condensed matter physics. Topics of interest range from the equilibrium and transport properties of strongly correlated matter to quantum chaos and thermalization.
Research Interests
- Theoretical condensed-matter physics