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Professor Kar is an experimental condensed matter physicist interested in the science and applications of 2D Quantum Materials. He is the Director of Northeastern’s Experiential Quantum Advancement Laboratories (EQUAL), the Deputy Director of Northeastern’s Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute (QMSI), and is involved in several quantum-related research, education and infrastructure intitiatives at Northeastern. He has received several research, teaching, and research-translation awards and recognitions. Kar is an ex-Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Materials for Quantum Technologies (IOP). He co-founded Guardion, a start-up translating NSF-funded research to develop multi-functional sensors and detectors. Kar strives to create a discrimination-free, inclusive academic environment that celebrates diversity and promotes the under-represented in STEM.

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Professor Bansil is a University Distinguished Professor in physics at Northeastern University (NU). He is the Director of Northeastern University’s Quantum Material and Sensing Institute (QMSI) and the co-Director of EQUAL. He served for over two years at the US Department of Energy managing the flagship Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics program (2008-10). He is an academic editor of the international Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (1994-), the founding director of NU’s Advanced Scientific Computation Center (1999-), and serves on various international editorial boards and commissions. He has authored/co-authored over 400 technical articles and 18 volumes of conference proceedings covering a wide range of topics in theoretical condensed matter and materials physics, and a major book on X-Ray Compton Scattering (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).

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