Jean-Sebastien Bernier
Program
Junior Fellow Academy
Appointment
Junior Fellow, Quantum Materials
Institution
University of British Columbia
Country
Canada 
Jean-Sébastien Bernier is a CIFAR Junior Fellow working under the co-supervision of Quantum Materials program members Philip Stamp and Fei Zhou in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia. In 2011, Jean-Sébastien completed a postdoctoral fellowship at École Polytechnique (France) working with Corinna Kollath and Collège de France professor Antoine Georges. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2008 from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Yong Baek Kim, a Fellow of the Quantum Materials program. He also holds a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a B.Eng. from École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Jean-Sébastien is interested in understanding the properties of solid state and artificial quantum materials whose elementary constituents are strongly interacting. As a theorist, he has developed novel protocols and probes to help experimentalists realize and identify strongly correlated quantum states made of gases of atoms that have been cooled to temperatures near absolute zero and stored in optical lattices made of interfering laser beams. Recently, he has become interested in the out-of-equilibrium behaviour of cold atomic systems. Jean-Sébastien is also involved in the search for states which cannot be described within the standard formulation of condensed matter physics. This search led him to the study of various magnetic systems.
Jean-Sébastien is interested in understanding the properties of solid state and artificial quantum materials whose elementary constituents are strongly interacting. As a theorist, he has developed novel protocols and probes to help experimentalists realize and identify strongly correlated quantum states made of gases of atoms that have been cooled to temperatures near absolute zero and stored in optical lattices made of interfering laser beams. Recently, he has become interested in the out-of-equilibrium behaviour of cold atomic systems. Jean-Sébastien is also involved in the search for states which cannot be described within the standard formulation of condensed matter physics. This search led him to the study of various magnetic systems.