Group members
Dr. Claudia Ratti is MD Anderson Professor of Physics. She received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino (Italy) in 2003. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), ECT* in Trento (Italy), State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) and Wuppertal University (Germany). In 2010 she became junior professor and group leader at Torino University. In 2014 she became an assistant professor at the Physics Department of the University of Houston, where she is a tenured professor since 2022. Author of more than ninety publications in peer-reviewed international journals, she presented the results of her research in more than a hundred seminars at international conferences and universities. She has been awarded the ‘2011 International Zonta Prize for Women in Science’, the ‘2012 Prize Giuseppe Borgia' by the Italian Academy of Science (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), the NSF Career Award in 2017, and she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021. Her research is mainly focused on the study of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density, such as the one created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL, or that can be found in the core of neutron stars and their mergers.
