Steven Kivelson

Steven Kivelson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954. Kivelson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979, working with C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr. He then joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was an assistant (1982–86), associate (1986–88) and full professor (1988–89). In 1988, he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, Kivelson joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he was appointed Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics in 2012. Doctoral students Kivelson has advised many doctoral theses, including those of Assa Auerbach (1985), Shivaji Sondhi (1992) and Erica Carlson (2000). == Research ==

In the 1995, Victor Emery and Kivelson developed the first model for high-temperature superconductivity based on the presence and fluctuations of charge stripes. Unfortunately this model does not apply to cuprate superconductors due to the lack of charge–spin separation. == Awards and honors ==

Kivelson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He earned the 2025 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society for "broad and insightful theoretical contributions that have significantly advanced the understanding of correlated quantum systems". == Textbooks ==