James Analytis

James Analytis is the Charles Kittel Chair in Condensed Matter Physics at UC Berkeley. He is an expert in the synthesis and characterization of exotic materials, and specifically studies the emergence of collective phenomena in strongly interacting systems. His current interests are unconventional superconductors, quantum critical systems, frustrated magnets and topological spintronics. Analytis received a BSc in physics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a DPhil in physics from the University of Oxford; he joined the faculty at Berkeley Physics in 2013 as the Charles Kittel Chair in condensed matter physics. He served as department chair from 2020–23, where he created the Pi2 undergraduate fellowship program, the Physics Innovation Lab, and drove a number of transformative reforms in graduate admissions, the graduate PhD program, undergraduate mentoring, departmental finances and initiated new approaches to faculty hiring. Analytis has been a recipient of a Department of Energy Early Career Award and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis.