Yohannes Abate is the Susan Dasher and Charles Dasher MD Professor of Physics at the University of Georgia and Founding Director of the Quantum Science & Engineering Program (https://quantum.uga.edu/). Abate’s condensed matter physics research interests include investigation of nanoscale and quantum phenomena and interactions in two-dimensional materials, oxide materials, and quantum emitters. Particularly his group is fascinated by how non-equilibrium or collective quantum phenomena that occur at the atomic/molecular scale result in nanoscale emergent behavior in quantum materials. His group implements various terahertz, infrared, optical spectroscopy and scanning probe techniques with diffraction unlimited spatial resolution.

Professor Abate joined the University of Georgia (UGA) as an associate professor of physics in August 2017. He received his PhD in Physics at the University of Iowa in 2006. From 2006-2009 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September of 2009 he has spent time as a Visiting Scientist at the Nano-Photonics Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany. He has received the NSF Career Award (2016) and in 2023 he has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as one of its 2023 Experimental Physics Investigators. He received the BS degree in physics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and MS degree in physics from the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is a member of the American Physical Society and Materials Research Society.