Dr. Manousakis received his Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, in July 1985, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (First Ross J. Martin Award for his thesis).  After a Post-Doctoral Research position at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985-1987) and at the Supercomputer Computational Research Institute (1987-88), he joined the Martech faculty in the Physics Department of FSU.

Recently, he was named Donald Robson Professor of Physics. In 2002, he was named Fellow of The American Physical Society (2002).  He also received the PAI Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (1998) and the Developing Scholar Award (1990) from Florida State University.

Dr Manousakis’ group develops computational methods to study novel collective behavior in certain quantum many-body systems which arises because of strong correlations among the fundamental microscopic degrees of freedom.  Examples of such systems are: Superconductors, Superfluids, Electrons in Solids, Quantum Phase Transitions in Atomically-Thin Films and Phase Transitions in Restricted Geometries and Finite Size Scaling.  His funding comes from NASA for "Theoretical studies of Static and Dynamic Critical Properties of Bulk and Confined Helium.



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