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Victor Galitski is a Russian-American physicist, a theorist in the areas of condensed matter physics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, quantum physics, and mathematical physics. He is the Chesapeake Chair Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and an honorary professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Family background and early life
Victor Galitski was born in Moscow, Russia in an academic family of Russian, German, and Jewish ancestry. His father, Mikhail Galitski, created and directed one of the top magnet schools in Moscow - "Kurchatov School" (Курчатовская школа). Galitski's paternal grandfather - Victor Galitskii (Галицкий,_Виктор_Михайлович) - was a world-renowned theoretical physicist,  who worked with Lev Landau, Arkady Migdal, Lev Gor'kov, Anatoly Larkin and was the director of the Theoretical Physics Department in the Kurchatov Institute and Head of Theoretical Nuclear Physics Department in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. His father, Galitski's great-grandfather - Mikhail Iosifovich Leontev - was a geography professor and head of the Geography Department at Moscow State University and Galitski's other great-grandfather - Nikolay Amplievich Leont'ev - was a leading Soviet economist. He and Galitski's maternal grandmother, Tatiana Leonteva, had traced their family origins to a pre-revolutionary aristocratic family descending from count Grigory Orlov family tree. Many members of the Leont'ev family were persecuted during Stalin's purges.

As a child, Galitski played chess semi-professionally and was the first official chess partner of Alexander Morozevich (who later became a chess Grandmaster with a peak ranking of No. 2 in the world).

Victor Galitski got his B.S. degree in Engineering and M.S. degree in physics in 1998 (both cum laude) from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). While an undergraduate student, Galitski was awarded a George Soros Fellowship and a Fellowship from Isère department in Grenoble, France, where he studied at the l'Université Grenoble Alpes for two years. He defended his PhD thesis in applied math in 1999 (the subject of the thesis, directed by Professor Dmitry Sokoloff from the Mathematics Department in the Moscow State University, was differential equations describing solar magnetohydrodynamics and  turbulence). Galitski later moved to the United States to work with Professor Anatoly Larkin, who was then at the joint position between the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute in Minneapolis and the Landau Institute in Russia. Galitski got his second PhD degree in condensed matter physics with the focus on superconductivity in 2002. After postdoctoral work with Matthew P. A. Fisher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Galitski moved to the University of Maryland as a faculty member in 2005.

Career
Victor Galitski has been a professor of Physics at the University of Maryland since 2005 and is now a Chesapeake Chair of Theoretical Physics and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. He is also an honorary professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Galitski is a foreign partner in of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, a member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Physics journal led by the Editor-in-chief, Brian Greene, and an elected member of the Board of the Aspen Center for Physics. He is also a member of the NSF funded Physics Frontier Center. In 2014-2017, Galitski's served as an elected member of the advisory board of Physics Today.

Galitski's research has focused on theoretical studies of superconductors, quantum criticality, non-equilibrium many-body phases, cold-atom systems, topological insulators,  Majorana fermions, solitons, and quantum chaos. His notable research contributions include the 2010 prediction of topological Kondo insulators, which were subsequently discovered in  Samarium hexaboride - the only known material, where strong correlations give rise to topological behavior. In 2006, he introduced and predicted a new kind of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC), where synthetic spin orbit coupling occurs due to carefully engineered laser-matter interactions. Spin-orbit BECs were experimentally discovered by the group of Ian Spielman in the JQI shortly after. In 2007, together with Sankar Das Sarma and others, Galitski resolved the minimal conductivity puzzle in early graphene physics. Together with Gil Refael, Galitski co-introduced the concept of Floquet topological insulators, where external irradiation yields reconstruction of the electronic spectra.

Recently, Galitski developed new interests in modeling hydrodynamics, turbulence, and dynamo effect in electronic materials.

Galitski has been awarded the NSF career award, Simons Investigator award, the Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council, and several other research awards.

In 2015, Michael Winer - a high-school student supervised by Galitski, won the first prize in the  Intel Science Talent Search ($150,000 cash prize). More than a dozen Galitski's former group members now hold faculty positions in academia and permanent research staff positions in industry. Together with Charles Clark, Galitski has developed and taught a massive open online course on advanced quantum physics offered on the on MOOC platform, coursera, based in Stanford. The course has been taken by more than 100000 students worldwide.

In 2018, Victor Galitski, Yuval Oreg of Weizmann Institute of Science, and Gil Refael of Caltech formed a consulting company -- Aspen Quantum Consulting, which focuses on providing expert opinion to venture capital companies and assists early quantum start-up ventures in obtaining initial investments.

Books
In 2013, Galitski published a 1000-page book of  problems and solutions in quantum mechanics. This collection was the result of nearly 60 years of work by  his late grandfather, Vladimir Kogan, and Boris Karnakov. The book started as a short collection of problems in the 1950s and grew over the years to become the required text to study quantum mechanics in the Soviet higher-educational system. Several Editions of the book were published in Russian, French, and Japanese, but new Editions and English translations were prevented by the untimely passing of Victor Galitskii (Галицкий,_Виктор_Михайлович). Galitski translated and expanded the text into the first English Edition published by Oxford University Press: