Education
Kotliar graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Bachelor of Science He became a research physicist at Princeton University, where he gained a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1983.
Kotliar graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Bachelor of Science He became a research physicist at Princeton University, where he gained a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1983.
Degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1979, then took his Master of Science in Physics in 1980. His first teaching position was as a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara for two years, 1983 to 1985, when he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Rutgers University in 1988, still as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1992.
In the autumn of 1990, along with Antoine Georges, he developed a quantum impurity model which was based upon dynamical mean field theory.
In 1994 he became a Lady Davies fellow, and nine years later accepted a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 he was awarded the Europhysics Prize and after that became a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure, the École Polytechnique, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Since 2001 he has been a fellow of the American Physical Society and is the author of 51 publications and a co-author of some 200 more.
American Physical Society.