Leticia Cugliandolo

Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo (born 1965)[1] is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the Sorbonne University.

Leticia Cugliandolo

The Cugliandolo–Kurchan equations, two integro-differential equations describing the behavior of spin glass, are named for her and her coauthor Jorge Kurchan, another Argentine physicist, after their studies of these equations.[2][3]

Education and career

Cugliandolo is originally from Mar del Plata.[4] She earned a degree in physics from the National University of Mar del Plata in 1988, and completed a doctorate at the National University of La Plata in 1991, under the supervision of Fidel A. Schaposnik. She earned a habilitation at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2000.[5]

After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of La Plata, Sapienza University of Rome, and Pierre and Marie Curie University, before becoming a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1996, associated with the laboratory for theoretical physics of the École normale supérieure (Paris). She became an associate professor at the École normale supérieure in 1997, returned briefly to the CNRS in 2002, and in the same year visited Harvard University as a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2003 she became a full professor with Pierre and Marie Curie University. She was also director of the École de physique des Houches from 2007 to 2017, and worked half-time for the CNRS from 2009 to 2014. In 2018, Pierre and Marie Curie University merged with several other institutions to become Sorbonne University, where she continues as a full professor.[5]

Recognition

Cugliandolo has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France for three terms, 2004–2009, 2014–2019, and 2019–2024.[5] She won the Prix Paul Langevin in 2002,[6] and in the same year won the Marie Curie award of the European Commission.[7] She won the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for female scientist of the year in 2015.[8]

References
  1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, accessed 2020-08-01
  2. Cugliandolo, Leticia; Kurchan, Jorge (1993), "Analytical solution of the off-equilibrium dynamics of a long-range spin-glass model", Physical Review Letters, 71 (1): 173, arXiv:cond-mat/9303036, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.173
  3. Ben Arous, Gérard; Dembo, Amir; Guionnet, Alice (2006), "Cugliandolo–Kurchan equations for dynamics of spin-glasses", Probability Theory and Related Fields, 136 (4): 619–660, arXiv:math/0409273, doi:10.1007/s00440-005-0491-y, MR 2257139
  4. Birthplace from Cugliandolo's home page, retrieved 2020-08-01
  5. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-08-01
  6. Prix Paul Langevin, Société Francaise de Physique, retrieved 2020-08-01
  7. "Una argentina fue distinguida con el premio Marie-Curie", La Nación, 4 November 2003
  8. Lauréates 2015 du Prix Irène-Joliot-Curie, retrieved 2020-08-01
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