Riccardo Comin

Riccardo Comin is an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Università degli Studi di Trieste in Italy, where he also obtained a M.Sc. in Physics in 2009. Later, he pursued doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, earning a PhD in 2013.

Professor Comin’s research explores the novel phases of matter that can be found in electronic solids with strong interactions, also known as quantum materials. The Comin lab adopts a combination of synthesis, scattering, and spectroscopy to study electronic symmetry breaking and emergent phases of matter and their excitations in quantum solids. Among the systems of interest in his group are two-dimensional and bulk transition metal-based compounds hosting exotic phases of quantum matter including high-temperature superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, topology and quantum geometry, unconventional magnetism.