Judit Romhanyi 

Judit Romhanyi is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. She is a theoretical physicist working in the field of condensed matter and materials research. Romhanyi received her Ph.D. from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2012. Before joining UCI in 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, and became a Staff Scientist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan.  

Romhanyi studies materials in which the strong interactions lead to fascinating emergent quantum phenomena. Her research group seeks to understand and characterize quantum materials by developing microscopic models describing them. They focus on experimentally motivated problems and are especially interested in compounds where the interplay of charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom is vital, leading to exotic physical properties of quantum origins. Exploring these systems is not only exciting but also has potentials in technological applications.