Rate My Professor Herbert Fotso

Herbert Fotso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo, a position he has held since August 2022. Previously, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Albany SUNY from September 2016 to August 2022. Earlier appointments include a Postdoctoral Associateship at the US Department of Energy Ames Laboratory from August 2014 to August 2016 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University from August 2011 to July 2014. Fotso earned his PhD in 2011 from Louisiana State University with a thesis on two-particle level diagrammatic approaches for strongly correlated systems. He also holds an MSc and a BSc from the University of Yaounde I.

Fotso's research centers on theoretical and computational condensed matter physics, utilizing analytical and computational methods to explore the nonequilibrium dynamics of many-particle quantum systems. His interests include strongly correlated systems driven out of equilibrium, quantum emitters and spin systems for quantum information processing, high-temperature superconductivity, ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices, and the impact of disorder on quantum materials. He received a $225,967 grant from the Department of Energy in 2023 to investigate how imperfections affect the behavior of quantum materials. Selected for the Physical Review A Kaleidoscope in 2014 for his work on frustrated phase separation in ultracold Fermi mixtures, Fotso has contributed to Simons Foundation's IDEA Scholar Program (2022-2023). Key publications include 'Thermalization of a Disordered Interacting System under an Interaction Quench' (Physical Review B, 2023), 'Tuning Spectral Properties of Individual and Multiple Quantum Emitters in Noisy Environments' (Physical Review A, 2023), 'Nonequilibrium DMFT+CPA for Correlated Disordered Systems' (Physical Review B, 2022), 'Beyond Quantum Cluster Theories: Multiscale Approaches for Strongly Correlated Systems' (Quantum Science and Technology, 2022), and 'Pulse-Enhanced Two-Photon Interference with Solid State Quantum Emitters' (Physical Review B, 2019).