Associate Professor of Physics Matthew Headrick was named by the American Physical Society as an Outstanding Referee for 2017. The award recognizes “scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals”. Headrick, who works in string theory and related areas of theoretical physics, is one of 150 Outstanding Referees named this year, out of about 60,000 active referees for the APS journals. Headrick is not the only Brandeis physicist to have received this honor; Robert Meyer, now Emeritus Professor, was named an Outstanding Referee in 2011.

Headrick’s research is primarily focused on the intersection of quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and quantum information theory. He is specifically interested in information-theoretic aspects of holographic field theories (field theories that are dual to higher-dimensional gravitational theories), such as entanglement entropies and related quantities.