Joseph Thywissen is a Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, a Senior Fellow of Massey College, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of Optica. His experimental research group uses ultracold neutral atoms to explore quantum many-body physics. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 2000, followed by two postdoctoral years at the Institut d'Optique (France), in the group of Alain Aspect. In 2003, Dr. Thywissen was awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics, and came to the University of Toronto.
He has been a Canada Research Chair and a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and remains one of the founding faculty members of the Toronto Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control. He has occupied leadership roles such as divisional executive board member in the American Physical Society, editorial board member of Physical Review A, member of the governing board of Massey College, divisional chair in the Canadian Association of Physicists.
