Galitski earned his PhD in applied math (under Prof. Dmitry Sokoloff from the Math Faculty in
Moscow State University) and a PhD in quantum physics under Prof.
Anatoly Larkin. Galitski was later a postdoctoral fellow at the
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has been on the faculty at the
University of Maryland since 2005, where he is now a Chesapeake Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is also a Fellow of the
Joint Quantum Institute there, an
honorary professor at
Monash University in
Melbourne,
Australia, and a foreign partner of the Australian
ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET). Galitski has been awarded the
NSF career award,
Simons Investigator award, the
Open Society Fellowship, and the
Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council. His notable researches include the 2010 prediction of
topological Kondo insulators. In 2006, he introduced a new kind of spin-orbit coupled
Bose-Einstein Condensate. In 2007, together with University of Maryland coworkers including
Sankar Das Sarma, Galitski resolved the minimal conductivity puzzle in
graphene physics. Together with Gil Refael, Galitski co-introduced
Floquet topological insulators. In July 2021, Galitski published a viral essay on linkedin, entitled "Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Science," cautioning about unsupported, inflated claims in the quantum computing industry and the dangerous possibility of "quantum Ponzi schemes." == Books ==