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Alexander Balatsky research focus is on the collective states of quantum matter including superconductivity, superfluidity, Dirac materials and materials informatics. He is a professor of theoretical physics at UCONN and Nordita. A Balatsky received his PhD on superfluid A phase of He3 at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prior to joining Nordita he was an Oppenheimer Fellow and the founding director of the Institute for Materials Science, Los Alamos. He is/was a member of the editorial board at Physical Review Materials (APS) and of Advanced Quantum Technologies(Wiley). He is the Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ara Go received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2012 at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, New York, USA, until she joined Institute for Basic Science as a junior research team leader in 2016. She is currently an assistant professor at Chonnam National University since 2020. She is interested in strongly correlated electron systems and computational methodologies, such as exact diagonalization, dynamical mean-field theory, and machine learning applications.

Maria Hermanns received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2010 at Stockholm University, Sweden. After a postdoc at Princeton University with Prof. Andrei Bernevig and one at the University of Cologne with Prof. Simon Trebst, she received an Emmy Noether grant by the German Research foundation to start her own research group. 2017 she moved as an assistant professor to Gothenburg University. After becoming a ‘Knut and Alice Wallenberg fellow’, she moved to a permanent position at Stockholm University as a Researcher.

Her main research interest are topological phases of matter, many-body entanglement, frustrated magnetism and quantum spin liquids. Her works include pioneering work on entanglement spectra and three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids. She has also an ongoing collaboration with experimental groups at the University of Cologne, working on cluster Mott insulators.

Sol H. Jacobsen has a background in quantum information and entanglement, and researches quantum physics with particular focus on transport in superconductors and magnetic systems. She studied Physics with Philosophy from the University of York, U.K., where she was awarded the university's Goodwin Prize for Physics. She completed her Ph.D. with Peter Jarvis at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and a postdoc at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany. After joining NTNU and QuSpin as a researcher, she won a grant from the Norwegian Research Council to establish her own group in 2019, and was awarded Outstanding Academic Fellow at NTNU. She has three young anti-collaborators, aged 9, 6 and 4.

Keun Su Kim received his doctorate in Physics in 2010 at Yonsei University and moved to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2010 to 2013. In 2013, he was appointed as an assistant professor in Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and moved to Yonsei Univeristy from 2017. He is currently a director of the Center for Bandstructure Engineering supported by the Leader Grant of the National Research Foundation of Korea. Over the past 10 years as an independent principal investigator, he has fosucssed on the effect of disorder, topological and geometric order, and manybody interactions on the electronic bandstructure of low-dimensional quantum materials including black phosphorus.

Jieun Lee obtained B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 2014. She worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Pennsylvania State University from 2014 to 2016 and then moved to Ajou University in Korea as an Assistant Professor in 2016. In 2020, she joined the Department of Physics of Seoul National University as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Lee received the POSCO Science Fellowship awarded for Young Principle Investigators in 2019 for pioneering research on 2D valleytronics and quantum information science. Her research interests include spin/valley properties of 2D materials, integrated nanophotonics, and quantum information technology.

He is currently professor of Seoul National University and leads the Center for Quantum Materials, supported by the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation and the National Research Foundation, Korea. He has mainly worked on magnetism throughout over 30 years of research, notably strongly correlated electron systems using neutron and x-ray scattering techniques. He has recently pioneered the field of van der Waals magnets by demonstrating the monolayer magnetism of antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials.

Young-Woo Son received Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, followed by a postdoctor position at UC Berkeley, CA, USA, before moving back to Korea in 2007 as an assistant Professor, Konkuk Univ, Seoul, Korea. He has joined Korea Institute for Advanced Study in 2008 as a full professor. He is currently director of the Center for Advanced Computation, KIAS. He has mainly worked on theoretical studies of low dimensional materials and methods developments for first-principles calculations of materials. He is a reciepient of prestigious Young Scientist Prize of IUPAP (International Union of Physics and Applied Physics) C8 commission in 2012 and POSCO TJ Park Science Prize of Korea in 2018. Full publications can be found in his Google Scholar page, https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=1P7ZF1YAAAAJ&hl=ko

Oscar Tjernberg received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1997 at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, followed by a three year postdoctoral period at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF in Grenoble, France. He then received an Assistan professorship funded by the Swedish Research Council and later a Council financed Associate professorship in the field of Strongly Correlated systems. In 2008, he was appointed full professor at KTH. He is currently head of the Applied Physics department at KTH and leads a research group focusing on spectroscopic investigations of Quantum Matter. The main research focus during recent years has been superconductivity and topological materials. The Quantum Matter research group at KTH was the first to discover Topological Crystalline Insulators and has made notable contributions to the experimental development of high energy and laser based Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy ARPES.