Rate My Professor Igor Pikovski

Pikovski's research group investigates quantum phenomena, quantum foundations, and quantum information science, with major interests in quantum sensing, macroscopic quantum systems, and the interface of quantum physics and gravity. His work has pioneered approaches to testing quantum gravity using quantum technologies. Notable publications include “Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing” (Nature Communications, 2024), the journal's most popular physics paper of 2024; “Stimulated absorption of single gravitons: First light on quantum gravity” (arXiv:2407.11929, 2024); “Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation” (Nature Physics, 2015); “Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics” (Nature Physics, 2012); and “Bell's Theorem for Temporal Order” (Nature Communications, 2019). His honors include the NSF CAREER Award and Stevens Presidential Fellowship in 2023, the Branco Weiss Fellowship (2016-2022), a $1.3 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant in 2026 for building the world's first graviton detector with Yale, an Alfred P. Sloan Partnership grant in 2024 ($776,668 to Stevens), and a Department of Energy grant in 2022.