Professor Hannah Price

• PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, 2013
• MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Cambridge, 2010

Hannah Price obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2013 for her research exploring topological phenomena in ultracold atomic gases. Her interests then expanded into photonics and quantum optics, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the INO-CNR BEC Center at the University of Trento, Italy. 

She joined the University of Birmingham as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a Birmingham Fellow in 2017.

In 2018, she was awarded the Institute of Physics James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize, as well as a University of Birmingham Founders’ Award: The Aston Webb Award for Outstanding Early Career Academic.

Hannah's research interests focus on photonics and cold atoms. In particular, her theoretical research explores how we can engineer such platforms to realise novel topological phases of matter, drawing on ideas developed to describe systems of electrons in condensed matter.

Most recently, she has built on developments in cold atoms and photonics to propose how to simulate the physics of higher-dimensional topological systems, such as the four-dimensional quantum Hall effect, for the first time in experiments. She is also interested in exploring new approaches for probing and engineering topological states in out-of-equilibrium or interacting systems.