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1 Curriculum Vitae DANIEL PODOLSKY Department of Physics Technion Israel Institute of Technology phone: +972 (4) Haifa, Israel Education: Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University, Thesis title: Interplay of magnetism and superconductivity in strongly correlated systems. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Eugene Demler, Department of Physics. M.A. in Physics, Harvard University, B.A. in Physics with Honors, with Distinction, Stanford University, Professional Employment: Associate Professor, Physics, Technion, 2015-present Assistant Professor, Physics, Technion, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, Other Professional Experience: Visiting Scientist, Insititute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Harvard University Sep 2017-May Research Internship, Center for Non-Linear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer Graduate Research Assistant, Physics, Harvard University, Undergraduate Research Assistant in high energy particle experiment, Stanford University,

2 Teaching: At Technion: Quantum Field Theory I, Spring 2010, 2011, and 2012 Graduate Solid State (Solid State 2), Spring 2014 Advanced Solid State (Solid State 3), Winter 2010 and 2011 Group Theory in Physics, Winter 2012, Spring 2016 and 2017 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2013 and Winter 2013 Quantum Mechanics 2, Winter 2014, 2015, and 2016 Graduate Teaching Fellow at Harvard University Introduction to Solid State Physics, Prof. E. Demler, Fall 2003 Quantum Theory of Solids, Prof. E. Demler, Fall 2001, Spring 2003 Quantum Field Theory 1 and 2, Prof. S. Coleman, Fall , Spring Principles of Phys: Electricity, Waves, & Nuclear Phys, Prof. C. Vafa, Summer 1999 Wave Phenomena, Lab, Prof. M. Schmitt and T. Hayes, Fall 1998, Spring 1999 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Stanford University Introduction to Modern Physics, Prof. J. Willick, Winter 1998 Advising: I am currently advising Israel Reichental (Ph.D. candidate). Previous members of my group include Dr. Yaniv Tennenbaum Katan (Ph.D), Ronen Abravanel (M.Sc.), Anat Klempner (M.Sc.), Itamar Shamai (M.Sc.), Dr. Heloise Nonne (postdoc) and Dr. Ravi Chandra (postdoc, currently faculty at NISER in Bhubaneswar, India). In addition, I have been coadvisor of two students, Dr. Snir Gazit (Ph.D. co-advised with Prof. Assa Auerbach, and currently an assistant professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and Dr. Guy Bunin (Ph.D. co-advised with Prof. Yariv Kafri, and currently an assistant professor at Technion). 2

3 Service: Organized the conference Quantum Dynamics: From Models to Materials, Aspen Center for Physics, January Organized the workshop Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter, Ultracold Atoms, and Beyond, Aspen Center for Physics, September Organized the workshop Dynamics and Transport in Quantum Matter, Technion, June Organized the workshop Quantum Magnetism in Ultracold Atoms, Technion, May 2011 Regular referee for professional journals (Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and B). Referee for the US National Science Foundation, the Israeli Science Foundation, and the German-Israeli Foundation. Organizer, Berkeley Quantum Materials Seminar, Organizer, Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Kids Seminar, Awards and grants: Israel Physics Society Prize for Young Physicist (2014) Wolf Foundation s Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research (2014) ISF-UCG India-Israel Research Grant, 210,000 NIS/year for three years ( ) Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, 25,000 euro/year for four years ( ) Israeli Science Foundation grant, 200,000 NIS/year for four years ( ) Israeli Science Foundation grant, 175,000 NIS/year for four years ( ) Harvard University, Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching (2004) Harvard University, Goldhaber Prize to top Theoretical Physics Graduate Student (2003) Stanford University, Firestone Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Research (1998) Stanford University, Carrington Prize for Scholarship and Teaching (1998) Stanford University, Levine Award to top Physics Undergraduate Student (1997) 3

4 Recent talks: Buckling transition and the antiferromagnetic liquid, Chez Pierre seminar, MIT (2017). Buckling transition and the antiferromagnetic liquid, Condensed matter seminar, Northeastern University (2017). Ion crystals as a window into magnetism, Condensed matter seminar, Harvard University (2017) Ion Crystals as a window into magnetism, ITAMP seminar, Harvard University (2017) Excitations of a quantum solid, Seminar, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel (2017) The Higgs mode in condensed matter and atomic systems, Invited talk at the Israel Physics Society (2016). Excitations of a quantum solid, Invited talk, ICTS conference, Bangalore (2016) Excitations of a quantum solid, Invited talk, conference Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism, Technion (2016) Collective modes of a quantum solid, Invited talk, Tsinghua-TAU meeting Physics at the Edge, Tel Aviv (2016) Collective modes of a quantum solid, Invited talk, UQUAM meeting, Innsbruck (2015) Gapped excitations of a quantum solid, Statistical physics seminar, Weizmann Institute (2015) Gapped excitations of a quantum solid, Invited talk at the 6th Indo-Israeli condensed matter meeting, Jerusalem (2014) Higgs mode and universal dynamics near quantum criticality, Colloquium at the physics department, Bar Ilan University (2014) Higgs mode and universal dynamics near quantum criticality, Invited talk, workshop Higgs Modes in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gases, Kyoto, Japan (2014) Gapped excitations of a quantum solid, workshop Dynamics and Transport in Quantum Matter, Technion (2014) Higgs mode and universal dynamics near quantum criticality, Condensed matter seminar, Hebrew University (2014) Gapped excitations of a quantum solid, Invited talk, COST meeting, Weizmann Institute (2014) 4

5 Dynamics and conductivity near quantum criticality, Invited talk, NSFC-ISF ultracold atomic meeting, Beijing (2013) Dynamics and conductivity near quantum criticality, Seminar, Institute of Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2013) Fate of the Higgs mode near quantum criticality, Invited talk, BEC 2013, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2013) Modulated Floquet topological insulators, Invited talk, Strongly correlated workshop, Zurich (2013) Fate of the Higgs mode near quantum criticality, Invited talk, APS March Meeting, Baltimore (2013) Universal properties of the Higgs mode near a quantum critical point, Condensed matter seminar, Harvard University (2013) Modulated Floquet topological insulators, Invited talk, Minerva-Gentner symposium, Tel Aviv (2013) Modulated Floquet topological insulators, Invited talk, BIRS workshop, Banff, Canada (2013) Fate of the Higgs mode near quantum criticality, Mathematical physics seminar at Technion (2012) Fate of the Higgs mode near quantum criticality, KITP workshop, Santa Barbara, California (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter systems, Condensed matter seminar at the University of California at Berkeley (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter systems, Condensed matter seminar at the Weizmann Institute (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter systems, Condensed matter seminar at Tel Aviv University (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter and cold atomic systems, APS March Meeting, Boston (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter and cold atomic systems, Quantum Optics seminar at the Max Planck Institute, Munich (2012) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter, Invited talk at the China-Israel Meeting on Condensed Matter, Jerusalem (2011). 5

6 Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter, Invited talk at the 5th Indo-Israeli Meeting on Condensed Matter, Cochin, India (2011). Quantum spin liquids: Can an insulator have a Fermi surface?, Condensed matter science Colloquium, Los Alamos National Lab (2011). Creation and control of fractional excitations using microwaves, at the workshop Topological Insulators, Aspen Center for Physics (2011) Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter, at the workshop Quantum Magnetism in Ultracold Atoms, Technion (2011). The search for the elusive spin liquid, Condensed matter seminar, Tel Aviv University (2011) The search for the elusive spin liquid, Condensed matter seminar, Bar Ilan (2011) The longevity of the Higgs Mode, Invited talk at the conference ICMP 2010, Mysore, India (2010) The search for the elusive spin liquid, Colloquium at the Physics Department, Technion (2010) The longevity of the Higgs mode, Condensed matter seminar, Caltech (2010) The longevity of the Higgs mode, Quantum materials seminar, Berkeley (2010) The Cascaded Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in polar condensates, Condensed matter seminar, Harvard (2010) A continuous Mott-Metal transition in 3 dimensions, Invited talk at MPI-PKS conference, Dresden (2010) A continuous Mott-Metal transition in 3 dimensions, Condensed matter seminar, Weizmann Institute (2010) Emergent SO(6) symmetry in the iron pnictides, Invited talk at Fermions 2009, Obergurgl, Austria (2009) 6

7 Publications: 1. Symmetries and selection rules in high harmonic generation and other Floquet systems, O. Neufeld, D. Podolsky, O. Cohen, arxiv: (2017) 2. Dynamical response near quantum critical points, A. Lucas, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, W. Witczak-Krempa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, (2017) 3. Buckling transitions and clock order of two-dimensional Coulomb crystals, D. Podolsky, E. Shimshoni, G. Morigi, S. Fishman, Phys. Rev. X 6, (2016) 4. Collective modes in a quantum solid, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, H. Nonne, A. Auerbach, D. P. Arovas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, (2016) 5. Spectral function of the Higgs mode in 4 ε dimensions, Y. Tenenbaum Katan and D. Podolsky, Phys. Rev. B 91, (2015) 6. Critical capacitance and charge-vortex duality near the superfluid to insulator transition, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, and A. Auerbach, Phys. Rev. Lett (2014) 7. From classical to quantum criticality, D. Podolsky, E. Shimshoni, P. Silvi, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, G. Morigi, and S. Fishman, Phys. Rev. B 89, (2014) (2014) 8. Dynamic spin fluctuations at T 0 in a spin-1/2 ferromagnetic kagome lattice, O. Ofer, L. Marcipar, V. R. Chandra, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, D.P. Arovas, and A. Keren, Phys. Rev. B 89, (2014) 9. Dynamics and conductivity near quantum criticality, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, A. Auerbach, and D.P. Arovas, Phys. Rev. B 88, (2013) (selected as Phys. Rev. B Editors Suggestion). 10. Generation and manipulation of localized modes in Floquet topological insulators, Y. Tenenbaum Katan and D. Podolsky, Phys. Rev. B 88, (2013). 11. Transport-induced correlations in weakly interacting systems, G. Bunin, Y. Kafri, V. Lecomte, D. Podolsky, A. Polkovnikov, J. Stat. Mech. P08015 (2013). 12. Fate of the Higgs mode near quantum criticality, S. Gazit, D. Podolsky, and A. Auerbach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, (2013). 13. Photonic Floquet topological insulators, M. C. Rechtsman, J. M. Zeuner, Y. Plotnik, Y. Lumer, D. Podolsky, F. Dreisow, S. Nolte, M. Segev, and A. Szameit, Nature 496, (2013). 14. Modulated Floquet topological insulators, Y. Tenenbaum-Katan and D. Podolsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, (2013). 15. Cusp singularities in boundary-driven diffusive systems, G. Bunin, Y. Kafri, and D. Podolsky, J. Stat. Phys. 152, 112 (2013). 7

8 16. Non-differentiable large-deviation functionals in boundary-driven diffusive systems, G. Bunin, Y. Kafri, and D. Podolsky, J. Stat. Mech. L10001 (2012). 17. Spectral functions of the Higgs mode near two-dimensional quantum critical points, D. Podolsky and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B 86, (2012). 18. Large deviations in boundary-driven systems: Numerical evaluation and effective largescale behavior, G. Bunin, Y. Kafri, and D. Podolsky, Europhys. Lett. 99, (2012). 19. Untangling the orbitals in iron-based superconductors, D. Podolsky, Physics 5, 61 (2012) 20. Shallow pockets and very strong coupling superconductivity in FeSe x Te 1 x, Y. Lubashevsky, E. Lahoud, K. Chashka, D. Podolsky, and A. Kanigel, Nature Physics 8, 309 (2012). 21. Visibility of the Amplitude (Higgs) Mode in Condensed Matter, D. Podolsky, A. Auerbach, and D. P. Arovas, Phys. Rev. B 84, (2011) (selected as Phys. Rev. B Editors Suggestion) 22. Spin-orbit coupling in the metallic and spin-liquid phases of Na 4 Ir 3 O 8, D. Podolsky and Y. B. Kim, Phys. Rev. B 83, (2011) 23. Mean-field analysis of quantum oscillations, Fermi-surface topology, and magnetic breakdown in high-t c cuprates, J.-M. Carter, D. Podolsky, and H.-Y. Kee, Phys. Rev. B 81, (2010) 24. Phase transitions of S=1 spinor condensates in an optical lattice, D. Podolsky, S. Chandrasekharan, and A. Vishwanath, Phys. Rev. B 80, (2009) 25. Collective modes and emergent SO(6) symmetry in the iron pnictides, D. Podolsky, H.-Y. Kee, and Y. B. Kim, Europhysics Lett. 88, (2009) 26. Interaction between the magnetic and superconducting order parameters in a La 1.94 Sr 0.06 CuO 4 wire studied via muon spin rotation, M. Shay, A. Keren, G. Koren, A. Kanigel, O. Shafir, L. Marcipar, G. Nieuwenhuys, E. Morenzoni, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, M. Dubman, M., and D. Podolsky, Phys. Rev. B 80, (2009) (selected as Phys. Rev. B Editors Suggestion) 27. Geometrical approach to hydrodynamics and low-energy excitations of spinor condensates, R. Barnett, D. Podolsky, and G. Refael, Phys. Rev. B 80, (2009) (selected by APS for the August 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids) 28. Mott transition between a spin-liquid insulator and a metal in three dimensions, D. Podolsky, A. Paramekanti, Y. B. Kim, and T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, (2009) 8

9 29. Nematicity as a route to a magnetic field-induced spin density wave order; application to the high temperature cuprates, H.-Y. Kee and D. Podolsky, Europhysics Lett (2009) 30. Halperin-Saslow modes as the origin of the low-temperature anomaly in NiGa 2 S 4, D. Podolsky and Y. B. Kim, Phys. Rev. B 79, (R) (2009) 31. Quantum oscillations of ortho-ii high-temperature cuprates, D. Podolsky and H.-Y. Kee, Phys. Rev. B 78, (2008) 32. SO(4) symmetry in Bechgaard salts, D. Podolsky, E. Altman, and E. Demler, chapter in Andrei Lebed, ed., The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors, Springer- Verlag (2008) 33. Vortex dynamics and Nernst effect in fluctuating superconductors, S. Raghu, D. Podolsky, A. Vishwanath, and D. Huse, Phys. Rev. B 78, (2008) (selected by APS for the December 1, 2008 issue of the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity) 34. Nernst effect and diamagnetism in phase fluctuating superconductors, D. Podolsky, S. Raghu, and A. Vishwanath, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, (2007) (selected by APS for the September 15, 2007 issue of the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity) 35. Thermoelectric transport near the pair breaking quantum phase transition out of a d-wave superconductor, D. Podolsky, A. Vishwanath, J.E. Moore, and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B 75, (2007) 36. Enhancement of superconductivity by local inhomogeneity, I. Martin, D. Podolsky, and S. A. Kivelson, Phys. Rev. B 72, (R) (2005) 37. Interplay of magnetism and superconductivity in strongly correlated systems, D. Podolsky, Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University (2005) 38. Properties and detection of spin nematic order in the high-t c cuprates, D. Podolsky and E. Demler, New J. Phys. 7, 59 (2005) 39. SO(4) theory of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in Bechgaard salts, D. Podolsky, E. Altman, T. Rostunov, and E. Demler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, (2004) 40. Competition between triplet superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in quasi onedimensional electron systems, D. Podolsky, E. Altman, T. Rostunov, and E. Demler, Phys. Rev. B 70, (2004) 41. Translational symmetry breaking in the superconducting state of the cuprates: Analysis of the quasiparticle density of states, D. Podolsky, E. Demler, K. Damle, and B.I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. B 67, (2003) (selected by APS for the April 1, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity) 9

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