Ali Yazdani (born 1967) is an American physicist who focuses on understanding new quantum phases of matter.
Yazdani was born in 1967 and raised in Tehran, Iran, prior to immigrating to California, USA.
In 2015, he was named the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics at Princeton and the Director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), a material research science and technology (MRSEC) center supported by the National Science Foundation.
In 2024, he stepped down as PCCM director, became the co-director of Princeton Quantum Initiative and was named the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor.
Yazdani has held visiting professorships at Stanford and at Cambridge University (Trinity College) in the UK and has been a Loeb Lecturer at Harvard.