Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Laboratory Fellow in the Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wojciech Zurek is a theoretical physicist based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He received his MSc from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, in his native Poland, and his PhD in 1979 from the faculty of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He remained there as a postdoctoral fellow of Professor John Archibald Wheeler until 1981, when he joined the California Institute of Technology as Tolman Fellow. Zurek arrived in Los Alamos in 1984 as an Oppenheimer Fellow. In 1991, he assumed leadership of Theoretical Astrophysics Group, and, in 1996, was appointed Laboratory Fellow in Theory Division. Zurek served as an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-organized the programs Quantum Coherence and Decoherence and Quantum Computing and Chaos at UCSB's Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Zurek has received numerous awards and distinctions, including Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer Award (2004), Alexander von Humboldt Prize (2005), Marian Smoluchowski Medal (2009), Einstein Visiting Professorship (Universität Ulm, 2010-2015), Los Alamos Medal (2014), and the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Jagiellonian University (2019) and AGH University of Science and Technology (2021). His most influential contributions include decoherence theory, no-cloning theorem, and the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.
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