Prosen earned his Diploma in Physics in 1991, and a Doctorate of Science in 1995, both from the University of Ljubljana. He finished both at a significantly younger age than usual. ISI named him a ‘Citation Superstar’ as one of the most cited young scientists in Slovenia in 2000.[2] He was made a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana by outstanding early election in 2008.[2]
Research
Tomaž Prosen is primarily known for providing the first exact solutions for models of open quantum many-body systems and for the discovery of novel kinds of quantum conservation laws that settled long-standing questions about the nature of transport in fundamental models of low-dimensional quantum materials, such as the Heisenbeg spin chains and the one-dimensional Hubbard model.[3][4] The latter work also provided a full description of canonical ensembles of quantum integrable systems[5] paving the way for extensions of thermodynamics to integrable systems. He is also known for pioneering a novel approach for establishing quantum chaos in spin-1/2 systems, for which previously known semi-classical methods fail.[6] This approach challenged conventional beliefs in theoretical physics by providing an exact solution to the dynamics of a chaotic model.[6][7][8]
