Curriculum Vitae Predrag Nikolić George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy Planetary Hall #209, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA Phone: 571-524-3022; E-Mail: [email protected]; www: http://physics.gmu.edu/~pnikolic/ Academic Positions George Mason University, Associate Professor 09/01/2015 ± present Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Associate Professor 09/01/2016 ± present George Mason University, Assistant Professor 08/25/2009 ± 08/31/2015 Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Assistant Professor 09/01/2009 ± 08/31/2016 National Institute for Standards and Technology, Guest Researcher 09/01/2009 ± 07/01/2011 Rice University, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow 08/01/2007 ± 07/31/2009 Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow 09/01/2005 ± 07/31/2007 Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate 09/01/2004 ± 08/31/2005 Columbia University, Visiting Scientist 09/01/2004 ± 08/31/2005 Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 2004 thesis: Geometrically Frustrated Quantum Magnets (advisor: T. Senthil) 09/01/2001 ± 09/15/2004 experimental physics research assistantship (advisor: R. Ashoori) 07/15/1998 ± 08/31/2001 University of Belgrade, Serbia, B.S. in Applied Physics 1998 thesis: Quantum Interference Transistors (advisor: K.Nikolić) 09/01/1993 ± 07/01/1998 Research Grants and Awards DOE Energy Frontier Research Center: Institute for Quantum Matter (Co-PI) 2018 ± present DOE Institute for Quantum Matter (Co-PI) 2017 ± present NSF Award #1205571 (PI): ªCollaborative Research: 2012 ± 2015 Correlated Superfluids and Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Atomic Gasesº Publication Award, George Mason University, College of Science November 2011 Rice University, Keck Fellowship 2007 ± 2009 Madlena Janković Foundation, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 ± 1998 Department of Education, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 ± 1998 Curriculum Vitae 2 Predrag Nikolić Travel Grants Nordita (Stockholm), Workshop: ªQuantum solids, liquids, and gasesº 2010, 2016 Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop: ªSupersolid State of Matterº June 2006 Boulder Summer School of Physics, ªFrontiers of Magnetismº July 2003 American Physical Society, Centennial Meeting, Atlanta March 1999 Technical University of Bratislava, IAESTE Undergraduate Research Grant Summer 1997 Professional Service Co-organizer of the symposium ªFrontiers of Quantum Matterº, George Mason University (June 2012) Co-organizer of the ªZlatko Tešanović Memorial Symposiumº, Johns Hopkins University (March 2013) Journal referee: Phys. Rev. A, B, Lett., Science, Nature, J. of Low Temp. Phys., New J. of Phys. Grant proposal reviewer (ext., panel): National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Physics colloquium co-organiser at George Mason University (Fall 2010, Spring 2011) GMU Center for Quantum Science seminar co-organiser and web-site maintainer (2009 ± present) Thesis committee member (3 students at GMU, 6 students at Johns Hopkins, 1 student at Georgetown) Teaching George Mason University Math Methods in Physics (PHYS 590) Lectures 2018 Statistical (Thermal) Physics (PHYS 307) Lectures 2016, 2017 University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures 2013, 2014 Quantum Field Theory (PHYS 780) Lectures 2011, 2015, Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures 2010 ± 2013 Modern Physics (PHYS 302) Lectures 2010 ± 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Freshman course on Electromagnetism Tutoring and grading Spring 2002 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Grading Fall 2001 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Recitation Instructor Fall 1999 Mentoring George Mason University S. Keeling, S.Movafagh, R.Mays current graduate students Tanja Duric former postdoctoral associate 2010 ± 2011 M.DePrenger former graduate student Curriculum Vitae 3 Predrag Nikolić Johns Hopkins University Yi Luo, graduate student 2017--present Wesley Fuhrman, graduate student of C. Broholm 2014 ± 2018 Miguel Sulangi, former graduate student 2012 ± 2013 Harvard University Eun-Gook Moon, graduate student of S. Sachdev 2006 ± 2007 List of Publications [1020 citations by Google Scholar] 1. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, Magnetic impurities in Kondo insulators and the puzzle of samarium hexaboride, submitted for publication (2018). arXiv 1807.00005 2. W. T. Fuhrman, J. R. Chamorro, P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, T. Keller, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, Y. Qiu, P. Nikolić, T. M. McQueen, and C. L. Broholm, Screened moments and extrinsic in-gap states in samarium hexaboride, Nature Communications 9, 1539 (2018). arXiv:1707.03834 3. Predrag Nikolić, Vortex states in a non-Abelian magnetic field, Physical Review B 94, 064523 (2016). arXiv:1606.02317 4. Rubem Mondaini, Predrag Nikolić and Marcos Rigol, Mott-Insulator to Superconductor Transition in a Two-Dimensional Superlattice, Physical Review A 92, 013601 (2015). arXiv:1412.1829 5. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, In-gap collective mode spectrum of the topological Kondo insulator SmB6, Physical Review B 90, 195144 (2014). arXiv:1409.3220 6. Predrag Nikolić, Two-dimensional heavy fermions on the strongly correlated boundaries of Kondo topological insulators, Physical Review B 90, 235107 (2014). arXiv:1407.4482 7. W. T. Fuhrman, J. Leiner, P. Nikolić, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, S. M. Koohpayeh, P. Cottingham, W. Adam Phelan, L. Schoop, T. M. McQueen, C. Broholm, Interaction Driven Subgap Spin Exciton in the Kondo Insulator SmB6, Physical Review Letters 114, 036401 (2015). arXiv:1407.2647 8. Predrag Nikolić, Vortices and vortex states in Rashba spin-orbit-coupled condensates, Physical Review A 90, 023623 (2014). arXiv:1406.1198 9. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Interaction proximity effect at the interface between a superconductor and a topological insulator quantum well, Physical Review B 87, 134511 (2013). arXiv:1210.7821 Curriculum Vitae 4 Predrag Nikolić 10. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells, Physical Review B 87, 104514 (2013). arXiv:1208.0608 11. Predrag Nikolić, Effective theory of fractional topological insulators in two spatial dimensions, Physical Review B 87, 245120 (2013). arXiv:1206.1055 12. Predrag Nikolić, Tanja Duric and Zlatko Tešanović, Fractional topological insulators of Cooper pairs induced by proximity effect, Physical Review Letters 110, 176804 (2013). arXiv:1109.0017 13. Predrag Nikolić, Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 025602 (2013). arXiv:1108.5388 14. Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si, Predrag Nikolić and Jian-Xin Zhu, Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy, Nature Communications 4, 2783 (2013). arXiv:1103.3259 15. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Cooper pair insulators and theory of correlated superconductors, Physical Review B 83, 064501 (2011). arXiv:1008.4369 16. Predrag Nikolić, Unitarity in periodic potentials: a renormalization group analysis, Physical Review B 83, 064523 (2011). arXiv:1006.2378 17. Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Robust accidental nodes and zeroes and critical quasiparticle scaling in iron-based multiband superconductors, Physical Reviev B 84, 014505 (2011). arXiv:1006.0447 18. N. Goldman, I. Satija, P. Nikolić, A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, M. Lewenstein and I. B. Spielman, Realistic Time-Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators With Neutral Atoms, Physical Review Letters 105, 255302 (2010). arXiv:1002.0219 19. Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Finite momentum pairing instability of band insulators with multiple bands, Physical Review B 81, 012504 (2010). arXiv:0906.2202 20. Pallab Goswami, Predrag Nikolić and Qimiao Si, Superconductivity in Multi-orbital t-J1-J2 Model and its Implications for Iron Pnictides, Europhysics Letters 91, 37006 (2010). arXiv:0905.2634 21. Predrag Nikolić, Phase diagram of two-dimensional fast-rotating ultracold fermionic atoms near unitarity, Physical Review A 81, 023601 (2010). arXiv:0904.2391 22. Predrag Nikolić, Two-dimensional fermionic superfluids, pairing instability, and vortex liquids in the absence of time reversal symmetry, Physical Review B 79, 144507 (2009). arXiv:0901.2576 23. Predrag Nikolić, Pairing instability driven by macroscopically degenerate collective modes in two- dimensional rotating fermion liquids near unitarity, unpublished (2008). arXiv:0810.4149 24. Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Superfluid-insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near-unitary interactions in a periodic potential, Physical Review Letters 99, 230403 (2007). arXiv:0707.2383 Curriculum Vitae 5 Predrag Nikolić 25. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Renormalization group fixed points, universal phase diagram, and 1/N expansion for quantum liquids with interactions near the unitarity limit, Physical Review A 75, 033608 (2007). arXiv:cond-mat/0609106 26. Predrag Nikolić, Subir Sachdev and Lorenz Bartosch, Electronic states near a quantum fluctuating point vortex in a d-wave superconductor: Dirac fermion theory, Physical Review B 74, 144516 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0606001 27. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d-wave superconductors, Physical Review B 73, 134511 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0511298 28. Predrag Nikolić, Disordered, spin liquid and valence-bond ordered phases of the Kagome lattice quantum Ising models with transverse field and XXZ dynamics, Physical Review B 72, 064423 (2005). arXiv:cond-