Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born June 11, 1976, in Valencia) is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Biography
Jarillo-Herrero received in 1999 his Licenciatura in physics from the University of Valencia in Spain. Then he spent two years at the University of California, San Diego, where he received a MSc in 2001. In 2005 at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands he earned his PhD, and continued on to a postdoc. In 2006 he moved to Columbia University, where he worked as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow. In January 2008 he joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics and received tenure. In 2018 he was promoted to Full Professor of Physics.

In 2018 Jarillo-Herrero presented a new 2D-platform to investigate strongly correlated physics, based on graphene moiré superlattices. When two graphene sheets are twisted by an angle close to a magic angle theoretically predicted by Allan MacDonald and Rafi Bistritzer,  the resulting flat band structure near the Dirac point gives rise to a strongly-correlated electronic system. His research demonstrated electrically tunable superconductivity in this system of pure carbon and without an applied magnetic field.

Honors

 * Elected Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (2023)
 * Cherwell-Simons Lecturer, University of Oxford (2023)
 * APS Kavli Foundation Symposium Speaker, Las Vegas (2023)
 * Elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2022)
 * Dresselhaus Lecturer, MIT (2022)
 * Hanna Visiting Professor, Stanford University (2022)
 * Max Planck Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (2022)
 * Ford Lecturer, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2022)
 * Pimentel Lecturer, University of California Berkeley (2021)
 * Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science (2017–2022)
 * Fellow of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2019)
 * Member at Large of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (2019)
 * APS Fellow (2018)

Prizes and awards

 * 2023 Alumni-Plus Insigne Prize, Univ. of Valencia.
 * 2023 Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship, Univ. of Maryland
 * 2023 Ramon y Cajal Medal, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
 * 2022 Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research, Israel
 * 2021 Max Planck Humboldt Research Award, Germany
 * 2021 NIMS Award, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
 * 2021 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery
 * 2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture
 * 2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society
 * 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics
 * 2020 APS Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize
 * 2020 Moore Foundation Investigator in Quantum Materials Award
 * 2018 Breakthrough of the Year Award winner by Physics World
 * 2014 Moore Foundation Investigator in Quantum Materials Award
 * 2013 ONR Young Investigator Award
 * 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
 * 2011 DOE Early Career Award
 * 2010 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics
 * 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
 * 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
 * 2008 NSF Career Award
 * 2006 Spanish Royal Society Young Investigator Award (2006)