The IOP-SFP 2024 Holweck Prize awarded to Ludovic Berthier

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research (DRCE) at CNRS. After a post-doctorate at Oxford University (2001-2004), he joined the CNRS Charles Coulomb laboratory in Montpellier in 2002.

He took a sabbatical at the University of Chicago in 2007, then at Cambridge University for the period 2019-2023. Since autumn 2024, he has been working in the Gulliver laboratory (ESPCI, PSL). He was Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College (Oxford, 2002-2004), and Overseas Fellow at Churchill College (Cambridge, 2019-2023).

Ludovic Berthier is a specialist in statistical mechanics. He is interested in disordered phases of matter, granular matter, active and biological systems, and physical processes far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Ludovic Berthier has introduced major new physical concepts and theoretical methods for complex systems and glassy materials, and was one of the first to explore the notion of effective temperature in non-equilibrium systems.

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