Cristiane de Morais Smith

Cristiane Morais Smith holds a Chair in Condensed matter physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She works on condensed matter physics, more specifically on strongly correlated systems. Her research spans a large variety of low dimensional quantum systems, ranging from high-temperature superconductors to quantum Hall systems, graphene, carbon nanotubes, and topological insulators.More recently, she became interested also in cold atoms physics. When loaded into optical lattices, ultracold quantum gases allow us to emulate condensed matter systems.The research done in her group involves mostly analytical techniques, such as field theory, renormalization group, Chern-Simons theory, bosonization, etc. The emphasis of her research resides in the connections between different physical systems, and how the knowledge of one system can be used to help the understanding of a more complex one.VICI award 2007 (the Netherlands)Prof. Boursier 2001 (Swiss National Foundation)