Ashvin Vishwanath (born January 9, 1973) is an Indian-American theoretical physicist known for important contributions to condensed matter physics.
[2] Vishwanath holds an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, completed in 1996.
He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 2001, after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Vortices, quasiparticles and unconventional superconductivity", under the supervision of F. Duncan Haldane.
[1] He held a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2012 to 2015 and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in materials science in 2014.
[4] He is one of the recipients of the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for groundbreaking theoretical and experimental studies on the collective electronic properties of materials that reflect topological aspects of their band structure.