Victor Galitski is a Russian-American physicist, a theorist working in the area of quantum physics.
He is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute there, an honorary professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a foreign partner of the Australian ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).
[5][6] In 2007, together with University of Maryland coworkers including Sankar Das Sarma, Galitski resolved the minimal conductivity puzzle in graphene physics.
Victor Galitski was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of Jewish, German, and Russian ancestry.
His grandfather Victor Galitskii (Галицкий,_Виктор_Михайлович [ru]) was a renowned physicist,[11][12] who worked with Lev Landau,[13] and Arkady Migdal, and was director of the theoretical physics department in the Kurchatov Institute.