Robert-Jan Slager

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Robert-Jan Slager obtained his doctorate in 2016 at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany, and at Harvard University. He became a principal investigator at the University of Cambridge in 2019 and has been a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester, UK, since October 2024.


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Topological Twist for Phase Transitions

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure. Read More »