Pablo
Jarillo-Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a Spanish physicist based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics. He studied physics in his native Valencia before moving to the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained a master’s degree in 2001.

He returned to Europe for his doctoral studies and joined the group of Leo Kouwenhoven at Delft University of Technology. In 2005, he received his PhD for major contributions to the understanding of the quantum properties of carbon nanotubes, including work on quantum dots formed in nanotubes and the demonstration of the Kondo effect in nanotube devices.

In 2006, Jarillo-Herrero moved back to the United States to join the group of Philip Kim at Columbia University, one of the pioneering centres of graphene research. He later took a faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he developed a broad research programme on two-dimensional materials. In 2018, his group reported unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, a discovery that helped establish the field of twistronics.

For his scientific achievements, Jarillo-Herrero has received several major awards, including the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society and the Wolf Prize in Physics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.