Nicole Yunger Halpern

Nicole Yunger Halpern is an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), the Joint Institute for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), and a staff member at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She earned her Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology in 2018, winning the international Ilya Prigogine Prize for a thermodynamics thesis. Nicole re-envisions 19th-century thermodynamics for the 21st century using the mathematical toolkit of quantum information theory.