Physics department welcomes new faculty for fall 2025
The Department of physics welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members.
Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics, is a co-hire of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and a member of the Materials Research Institute. His research uses a diverse analytical and numerical toolkit to study a variety of topics in quantum condensed matter. He is interested in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems and topological phases with a view towards emerging quantum technologies.
Iadecola’s previous awards and honors include an NSF CAREER award in 2022 and an Iowa State University Award for Early Achievement in Research in 2023. His research has been published in journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review B.
Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, Iadecola was an assistant and associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University from 2019 to 2025 and a JQI Theoretical Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland from 2017 to 2019. He earned his doctoral degree in physics from Boston University in 2017 and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics-physics from Brown University in 2012.