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Biography

Patrik Öhberg joined Heriot-Watt in 2006 as a Lecturer in Physics. He obtained his PhD in 1998 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has held research positions at the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, at St Andrews University in Scotland, and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellowship in the Department of Physics at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Since 2014 he is a Professor in Physics at Heriot-Watt University.

Areas of interest

  • Theoretical physics
  • Quantum many-body physics
  • Quantum optics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Gauge theories and topology