Babak Seradjeh

Professor

Phone:: (812) 855-4838
Email:: babaks@iu.edu

Department:: Department of Physics
Campus:: IU Bloomington

Swain West, 228
727 E. 3rd St.
Bloomington, IN 47405

Brief CV

Professional Path

2022–	Professor, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2016–2022	Associate Professor, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2017–2018	Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
2011–2016	Assistant Professor, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2008–2011	Postdoctoral Research Associate, ICMT, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2006–2008	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia. Advisor: Prof. Marcel Franz.
2000–2006	PhD in Physics, Simon Fraser University. Advisor: Prof. Igor Herbut.
1994–2000	BSc and MSc in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Awards and Achievements

2025	IU Trustees Teaching Award
2014-2020	NSF CAREER Award: Dynamics, Correlations and Disorder in Topological Matter.
2015	Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University – Bloomington (Archived Press Release).
2014	Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Physics, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2013	Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Physics, Indiana University – Bloomington.
2008–2010	NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2002–2004	Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University.
1995–1998	Undergraduate Scholarship, IPM, Tehran, Iran.
Sep 1998	Second Place, Physics Subject, Nation-wide Examination for Graduate Studies, Iran.
Sep 1994	First Place, Physics Subject; Second Place, General, Nation-wide University Entrance Examination, Iran.

Miscellaneous

Long-distance running

□ Marathon

Indy Monumental Marathon (11/5/2016, 3:28:41, 7:58 min/mile, AG 99/363) — Team Riley Fundraiser for Riley Hospital for Children;
Carmel Marathon (4/16/2016, 3:30:12, 8:02 min/mile, AG 28/68).

□ Half-marathon

Indy Monumental (10/28/2023, 1:40:02, 7:38 min/mile, AG 32/227);
Indy Monumental (11/5/2022, 1:39:05, 7:34 min/mile, AG 42/291);
Chi Town Half-Marathon (9/11/2021, 1:40:29, 7:40 min/mile, AG 16/99);
Indy Monumental (11/9/2019, 1:38:55, 7:33 min/mile, AG 65/505);
Piepenbrock Dresden Half-Marathon (22/10/2017, 1:39:46, 7:37 min/mile, AG 62nd);
Indy Monumental (11/7/2015, 1:36:31.6, 7:21 min/mile, AG 59/454);
Indy Monumental (11/1/2014, 1:43:05, 7:53 min/mile, AG 79/392);
Chicago Half (9/7/2014, 1:48:16, 8:16 min/mile, AG 133/501);
Hoosier Half (4/5/2014, 1:55:12, 8:48 min/mile, AG 63/114).

□ 15K

Hot Chocolate 15K Nashville, TN (2/15/2020, 1:12:09, 7:45 min/mile, AG 11/89);

□ 10K

Trinity Free Clinic 10K Carmel, IN (10/9/2019, 48:15, 7:47 min/mile, AG 1/7);

□ 5K

Hoosiers Outrun Cancer (9/16/2023, 23:00, 7:25 min/mile, AG 15/81);
Hoosiers Outrun Cancer (9/24/2022, 26:52, 8:39 min/mile, AG 28/124);
Hoosier Half 5K (4/8/2017, 38:00, 12:16 min/mile, AG 17/21);
Hoosiers Outrun Cancer (9/26/2015, 7:18 min/mile);
Hoosier Half 5K (4/11/2015, 21:15, 6:52 min/mile, AG 4/29);
IU Habitat For Humanity (4/4/2015, 21:34.1, 6:56 min/mile, AG 2nd);
BBC Turkey Run (11/27/2014, 21:28, 6:57 min/mile);
Hoosiers Outrun Cancer (9/20/2014, 6:58 min/mile).

Languages

فارسی (Persian): مادری (native); 🇺🇸 English: fluent; 🇫🇷 Français: intermédiaire; 🇩🇪 Deutsch: fortgeschrittener; 🇮🇹 Italiano: principiante; 🇪🇸 Español: principiante; 🇳🇱 Nederlands: beginner; ؏ Arabic: reading.