Egor Babaev Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden EDUCATION Undergraduate studies: A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, (Russia) Graduate studies: Department of Theoretical Physics University of Uppsala (Sweden) PhD (2001). POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS Sept. 2001-Aug. 2003 Postdoctoral research associate at Inst. for Theoretical Physics Uppsala University Sept. 2003-July 2006 Postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University FACULTY POSITIONS Sept. 2006-Aug. 2008 Assistant Professor at the Department for Theoretical Physics Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Sept. 2007-Dec. 2013 Assistant Professor Physics Department University of Massachusetts Amherst (during that period ~50% on leave at KTH) Sept. 2008- Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science hosted at the Royal Institute of Technology Sweden. May 2013 - Associate Professor at the Department for Theoretical Physics Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Nov 2015 – present Professor at the Department for Theoretical Physics Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 2015: Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Citation: “för hans originella teoretiska forskning vilken redan har visat helt nya vägar att förstå komplexa system och processer inom materialfysiken” 2013: Outstanding Young Researcher grant Swedish Research Council ~US$2.5 millions 2011: University of Massachusetts Exceptional Merit Award Description: “The award is given for exceptional, meritorious performance leading to achievement of national or international renown” 2011: Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society 2010: Tage Erlander prize in Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Citation: “For groundbreaking theoretical work that predicts new states of matter in the form of quantum fluids with novel properties” 2010: US National Science Foundation CAREER Award ~US$425 000 Description: “The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty.” 2008: Knut and Alice Wallenberg award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science/ Elected Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science Description: “The award is given by the Royal Swedish Academy to exceptionally gifted researchers to to conduct their research in Sweden.” 2009: Swedish Research Council Grant ~US$ 1,2 million 2006: VR Forskarassistent grant ~US $500000 Other GRANTS 2003: ~US$ 200 000- Personal grant from Norwegian Research Council “Multicomponent Superconductivity” 2002: ~US$ 100 000 Swedish Research Council “Multicomponent Superconductivity” Smaller Grants/conference and travel funding: 2010: ~US$ 20 000 Funds awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to support Tage Erlanders symposium “Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics” 1 2009: ~US$ 15 000 Grant from Swedish Research Council for conference “Frontiers in Quantum Solids, Liquids and Gases (with 4 co-applicants). 2009: ~US$ 50 000- Support of the international workshop “Quantum Solids, Fluids and Gases” from Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (with 4 co-applicants) 2007: ~US$ 70 000- Support for the international workshop “Quantum Fluids” from Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (with 4 co-applicants) 2002: ~US$ 10 000 -Personal travel grant from NORFA BRIEF SUMMARY OF SELECTED RESULTS • Introduction of the notion of metallic and superconducting superfluids and the prediction of the possibility of the realization of these new states of matter in hydrogen and deuterium at ultrahigh pressures. • Prediction of “type-1.5 superconductivity” • First discussions of paired states in multicomponent superconductors (where the pairing occurs between different Cooper pairs or other bosons, as a consequence of proliferation of composite topological defects) • First discussion of knotted solitons in condensed matter systems (with Faddeev and Niemi) • Demonstration of Non-Meissner electrodynamics in multicomponent superconductors arising as a consequence of generation of Skyrme terms by fluctuating gauge field • Solutions for vortices carrying an arbitrary fraction of magnetic flux quantum in multicomponent superconductors. • The effect of magnetic flux delocalization and field inversion in multicomponent superconductors (with J.M.Speight and J. Jaykka) • Finding the violation of the Onsager-Feynman superflow quantization in superconducting superfluid • Demonstration that the London Law can be violated in certain superconductors • Prediction of a spin-superfluid state without dissipationless charge transfer in triplet superconductors • Introduction of vortex sublattice melting transitions • First discussion of the pseudogap concept in high-energy physics context • Introduction of a “hidden vortex lattice” concept in paired superfluids • Findings of new kind of stable topological solitons “chiral CP2 solitons” in three-component superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry (with J. Garaud and J. Carlstrom) • Findings of a new kind of collective mode in three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry (with J. Carlstrom and J. Garaud). This collective mode is associated with mixed density- phase fluctuations. Thus it is principally different from the Leggett’s mode, Anderson mode and Carlson Goldman mode. • Prediction of Skyrmionic state in chiral p-wave superconductors (with Julien Garaud) • Prediction of anomalous metallic state which breaks Time Reversal Symmetry due to superconducting fluctuations • Prediction (with M. Silaev) a new vortex viscosity mechanism different from Tinkham and the Bardeen-Stephen mechanism PUBLICATIONS HIGHLIGHTS Cover story in Nature Magazine 2004 (first and corresponding author), Cover story in Nature Physics Magazine 2006 (first and corresponding author). EDITORIAL ACTIVITY Editorial Board Member Nature Scientific Reports Founding Editorial Board member “Springer Concise Physics Introductions” Served as an ad hoc Divisional Associate Editor Physical Review Letters. 2 TEXTBOOKS “Superfluid States of Matter” (with B. Svistunov and N. Prokof’ev) 580 pages Taylor and Fransis (April 2015) REFEREE 1. Nature Physics, 2. Physical Review Letters, 3. Physical Review A, 4. Physical Review B, 5.Physical Review D, 6.Physical Review E, 7.New Journal of Physics, 8.Annals of Physics, 9.Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 10.Europhysics Letters, 11.Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 12. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 13. European Physical Journal B, 14. Modern Physics Letters, 15. International Journal of Modern Physics, 16.European Journal of Physics. 17. Physica C, 18. Central European Journal of Physics, 19.Superconductor Science and Technology, 20. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 21. Physics Letters A, 22. Solid State Communications 23. Acta Physica Polonica. 24. Nuclear Physics B, 25. Nature Communications 26. Scientific Reports 27. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials PROJECTS REVIEWER/REFEREE FOR GRANTS APPLICATIONS 1. US National Science Foundation 2. US Department of Energy 3. European Research Council, referee for ERC Advanced Grants program 4. American Chemical Society PRF fund 5. The Research Foundation Flanders referee for junior and for large-scale grants 6. Russian Government grants (large-scale grants to attract leading international researchers) 7. Qatar National Research Fund. 8. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 9. The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) 10. Russian Science Foundation CITED EXPERT for 1. Physical Review Focus, 2. Science Magazine’s ScienceNOW 3. PhysicsWorld and PhysicsWeb 4. Tentakel EXTERNAL EXAMINER External member for PhD thesis committee for Eugeny Kozik (UMass, Amherst) 2006 External member for PhD thesis committee for Dmitry Yudin (Uppsala University) 2015 EXTERNAL EVALUATOR External evaluator for promotion for a chair professorship UK, 2012 External evaluator for tenure case and promotion to associate professorship USA, 2014 OUTREACH Multiple media articles in various languages (in German, French, Russian, Korean, Farsi, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian,Vietnamese). Selected research coverage in media/general audience publiations “Back to square one for superfluidity” Physics World December 2004; 3 “Metallic superfluid seen in computer” PhysicsWeb news article http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/23234; “Simulations reveal metallic superfluid” Physics World November 2005; “Un nouvel état de la matière découvert par le calcul” http://www.techno-science.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3460 “Known unknowns in high-pressure hydrogen” The central research highlight in the first issue of Nature Physics; “Possible Quantum-liquid Metallic Phase of Hydrogen at high Pressures and its Properties” Feature in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics October 23 (2006) http://www.condmatjournalclub.org/?p=34, “Superfluids break the law” Cover story in Nature Physics n.3, v.8 (2007); “Предсказана возможность существования металлической супержидкости.” http://livescience.ru/content/view/314/7/ "A Super Mix Inside Neutron Stars” Physical Review Focus http://focus.aps.org/story/v22/st3; “Type-1.5 superconductor shows its stripes” PhysicsWeb http:// physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/37806; “New Type of Superconductivity Spotted” ScienceNOW news story http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/2009/313/1; “Materials in extreme environments” in Physics Today 62 November 32 (2009) Research highlighted in the