Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Research; Teaching; Human Rights
Magnetism and Superconductivity, including quantum tunneling of the magnetic moment; dynamics of the magnetic flux in superconductors; disordered systems, molecular nanomagnets; skyrmions; magnetic and superconducting qubits; graphene; interaction of microwaves with solids. Four books, over 250 research articles in science journals. This research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and other agencies.
Fellow of the American Physical Society (since 1993), elected for seminal contributions to theory of random magnets, macroscopic quantum tunneling, and flux order in high-temperature superconductors"; 75+ invited review and plenary talks at scientific meetings; NSF Creativity Award (1997); Scholar of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics – UCSB (1998–2011); The 2024 Andrei Sakharov Prize of the American Physical Society awarded "For decades of leadership of prominent campaigns on behalf of oppressed scientists, including chairmanship of the APS and New York Academy of Sciences human rights committees and co-chairing of the Committee of Concerned Scientists."
Committee of Concerned Scientists (Co-Chair since 2011, Member of the Board since 1994, Director of the Program for Refugee Scientists); Committee on Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences (Member, Chair 2005-2008); Forum on International Physics of the American Physical Society (Member at Large, 2011-2014); Committee on International Freedom of Scientists of the American Physical Society (Chair 1999-2000).
Aviation, U.S. Private Pilot License.
- 60th-anniversary presentation in Coma-Ruga, 8 July 2008 (PowerPoint, 16 MB)
- Symposium "Spin Physics and Nanomagnets", Graduate Center of the CUNY, 13-14 March 2009.
- COVID-19 Pandemic:
- A physicist view of the airborne infection
- New Study Calculates the Potential Travel Distance of Airborne Saliva Droplet
- Stay 6 Feet Apart, We’re Told. But How Far Can Air Carry Coronavirus?
- Lattice Model of Mitigated Epidemic
- What’s the Risk of Catching Coronavirus From a Surface?
- Presentation at the Act Up HIV/COVID-19 Webinar
- Congressional Briefing featured on YouTube
- Featured on Australian National Radio's Science Friction episode When being a scientist is politically dangerous, by Natasha Mitchell.
- Featured by CUNY TV: http://www.cuny.tv/bio/eugene_m_chudnovsky
- Contributor to the Washington Examiner on human rights issues:
- Nobel Peace Prize recognizes Iranian women’s fight for gender equity
- Russia decimates its last bastion of human rights
- Court shuts down Russia’s oldest human rights organization
- US should hold accountable Belarusian human rights abusers
- Russia shuts down human rights watchdog, passes mass burial law in preparation for war
- Female Afghan students have been abandoned
- China cracks down on foreign-hosted online conferences
- Iranian female lawyer, a famous defender of free speech and human rights, in grave condition
- Willful ignorance is no excuse for enabling China's human rights atrocities
- Iran is torturing a hostage it wants to exchange with a terrorist
- An updated COVID-19 timeline
- China's free-speech crackdown increases likelihood of deadly coronavirus pandemic
- Turkey reverses course, releases some academics imprisoned on dubious charges
- Russia imprisons leading rocket scientists over leak paranoia
- Iran is jailing environmentalists, fearful that they've found pollution from possible nuclear and missile sites
- Turkey sends academics to prison for criticism of the bloody war against Kurds
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rain down terror upon scientists suspected of contacts with the West
- Colleges enable a culture that calls for Israel's destruction
- Is Iran developing alternative methods of uranium enrichment?
- Can the Iranian nuclear deal negotiators be trusted?
- Scientist dying in prison for refusing to help Iran develop nuclear weapons
- Turkish professors suffer while Erdogan imprisons them without trial
- The UN is a hypocrite on human rights
- Trump's travel ban threatens our ability to spread American values abroad
- One year after attempted coup, purges have left hundreds of Turkish academics imprisoned
- He refused to spy for Iran's military, and was sentenced to death for it
- The heartbreaking story of Turkey sentencing an American NASA scientist to 7.5 years in prison
- Former head of Greek statistical agency faces prison for revealing accurate economic data
- Russia has jailed a celebrated rocket scientist in a witch hunt over leaked weapons information
- Iran's Revolutionary Guard tortures female scholars behind prison walls
- Pakistan just sentenced a Fulbright scholar to death on a fabricated blasphemy charge
- He was a world-famous Uighur academic, but China sentenced him to death anyway
- Russia continues witch hunt for leakers of weapon designs
- China must let US experts visit Wuhan Institute of Virology
- Iran is using the pandemic as cover for cracking down on intellectuals
- Inside Lehman: NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Contributor to The Hill on science related issues
- E. M. Chudnovsky and J. Tejada, Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetic Moment (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- E. M. Chudnovsky and J. Tejada, Lectures on Magnetism with 128 Problems (Rinton Press, 2006)
- E. M. Chudnovsky, J. Tejada, and E. Punset, El Templo de la Ciencia, Destino – Spain (January 2008).
