{"id":25579,"date":"2022-05-23T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=25579"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:08:30","slug":"claudio-chamon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/claudio-chamon\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Chamon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudio Chamon is a Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. <span>He was awarded an NSF Early CAREER Award in 1999 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He received a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Physics specializing in theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Claudio&#8217;s research focuses on topological states of matter and their applications to topologically protected qubits for quantum information and quantum computation purposes; on equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, in particular quantum glasses; and on statistical mechanics applications to quantum scramblers and classical ciphers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18687,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18687"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25579\/revisions\/39069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}