Experimental physicist Markus Greiner always is searching for new and interesting states of matter. “In the long run, these states of matter might lead to new materials with fantastic properties you can’t even imagine yet,” he says.
Greiner, associate physics professor at Harvard University and the recent winner of a prestigious $500,000 “no strings attached” MacArthur Fellowship--popularly known as a “genius” grant--wants to better understand the spatial organization of ultra cold atoms with the goal of learning more about condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics.
“It’s pretty cool stuff,” he says, no pun intended. “But it is far from the everyday world, and hard to grasp for the public.”
To read more, click here.