David Feder - A Brief Biography

David Feder is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. He obtained his MSc and PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from McMaster University, studying anyon systems and high-temperature superconductivity. After working with Alexander Fetter at Stanford University on Bose-Einstein condensation, he devoted his postdoctoral studies at the University of Oxford and the University of Maryland, College Park to ultracold atomic systems. He joined the University of Calgary in 2002. David's research is at the interface of condensed matter physics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, and quantum information theory. Areas of investigation include quantum-walk, measurement-based, and topological approaches to quantum computation, and exotic phases in quantum many-body physics.