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Daniel Harlow is the Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1]
Harlow was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Boston and Chicago. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012. [2] Before joining MIT's faculty in July 2017,he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Harvard University. [3]
His research is focused on understanding black holes and cosmology,viewed through the lens of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. [4]
Harlow won the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2019 for "fundamental insights about quantum information,quantum field theory,and gravity." [5] [6] [7] He was also named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019, [8] and in 2020,he was named a Packard Fellow. [9]