Mehran Kardar

Academics — 02 December 2010

Mehran Kardar is a prominent Iranian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his B.A. in Cambridge University, and gained his Ph.D at MIT. Mehran Kardar is particularly known for the KPZ equation (Kardar-Parisi-Zhang^[1]) in theoretical physics, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001. He is the author of two books,

Statistical Physics of Fields. University of Cambridge Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521873413,
Statistical Physics of Particles. University of Cambridge Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521873420,

and of about 200 scientific papers^[2]

Awards

1976 – 78 Exhibition – Senior Scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge University
1978 – 79 Prizes based on performance in undergraduate (Tripos) exams
1981 – 82 IBM Predoctoral Fellowship
1983 – 86 Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows
1987 – 91 A. P. Sloan Fellowship
1988 – Fellow of Ashdown House (Graduate Dormitory), MIT
1988 Bergmann Memorial Research Award
1989 – Presidential Young Investigator Award
1990 Graduate Student Departmental Teaching Award
1990 -92 MIT Class of 1948 Professor (Career Development Chair)
1991 Edgerton Award for Junior Faculty Achievements at MIT
1992 The Beuchner Teaching Prize, Physics Department
1993 School of Science Prize in Graduate Teaching
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship