Orazio Scarlatella – Theory of Nonequilibrium and Dissipative Quantum Matter
Orazio has been a “chargé de recherche” at CNRS since March 2026, joining the PHOCOS group. He is a theoretical physicists specialising in nonequilibrium quantum many-body systems and dissipative quantum dynamics. His work lies at the interface of condensed matter physics and atomic and optical physics.
Orazio started his work on driven-dissipative models of light–matter interaction, as well as on related many-body theoretical techniques, notably the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, during his PhD at the Institut de Physique Théorique (CEA/Saclay) under the supervision of Marco Schirò (2016–2019).
During his postdoctoral appointments, he continued developing this line of research while broadening his interests. At Oxford (2019–2020) he worked on driven superconductivity, and at Collège de France (2020–2021) on methods for dissipative dynamics. At Chicago (2021–2022), he explored the topology of driven bosonic systems. As a Stephen Hawking Postdoctoral Fellow in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at Cambridge (2022-2025), he focused on strongly correlated quantum emitter arrays.
Orazio is broadly interested in emergent quantum phenomena, as well as in the theoretical structures and methods of quantum mechanics.
