Leticia Cugliandolo

Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo (born 1965)[1] is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems.

[2][3] Her most significant contributions include: the proof, in collaboration with Jorge Kurchan, that mean-field disordered models can effectively describe the physical aging of glasses; the definition and analysis of an effective temperature in the context of macroscopic systems undergoing slow out-of-equilibrium relaxation (with J. Kurchan and L. Peliti); the development of a mean-field theory for the relaxation of open quantum disordered systems (with G. Lozano); and the use of time reparametrization invariance to characterize the spatio-temporal fluctuations in glassy systems (with H. Castillo, C. Chamon, and M. Kennett).

More recently, her research has focused on the phase and dynamic behavior of dense active matter systems (with G. Gonnella, D. Levis and PhD students and post-docs).

Leticia Cugliandolo serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Physics and as the Chief Scientific Director of the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.

She became an associate professor at the École normale supérieure in 1997, returned briefly to the CNRS in 2002, and in the same year visited Harvard University as a Guggenheim Fellow.