Alessandra Lanzara is a Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2002. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1999 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University from 1999 to 2002. Her research focuses on emergent quantum matter, including unconventional superconductors, topological condensates, and two-dimensional materials. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Italian Physical Society, and has received numerous awards and prizes. http://research.physics.berkeley.edu/lanzara/
