Pierre Pujol

Pierre Pujol is a senior professor at the Université de Toulouse, Paul Sabatier, and member of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (LPT) of the same institution since 2006.

He was an undergraduate student at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela and obtained his PhD at the Université de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Scuola Internazionali Superiori di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) from 1996 to 1998, he became lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon) in 1998 and was a visiting scholar at Boston University from 2002 to 2003.

His domain of research concerns quantum and statistical field theory applied to statistical physics and condensed matter, and more particularly  strongly correlated electronic systems, frustrated magnetism and topological states of matter.