Chiral pairing in two-dimensional Wigner crystals 

Ilya Esterlis received his PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Steve Kivelson, where he studied the optimal conditions for superconductivity in electron-phonon systems. He then went on to Harvard University as an HQI fellow, where his research focused on correlated electron phenomena in 2D semiconductor materials, as well as strange metal and non-Fermi liquids phases arising in the phase diagrams of high-Tc superconductors. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focuses on novel electronic phenomena in 2D materials and on theoretical problems related to both conventional and unconventional superconductivity.