Žiga Krajnik, Ph.D.

Žiga Krajnik will be joining the Physics department of New York University as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Aditi Mitra. He received his B.S. and M.Sc. from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently finishing his Ph.D. supervised by Professor Tomaž Prosen. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Milan Lenarčič Foundation scholarship.

His research lies at the intersections of nonequilibrium statistical physics, integrability and mathematical physics. It primarily deals with low-dimensional interacting many-body systems, an interest sparked during his master’s when he studied super-diffusion in non-abelian integrable spin chains and found they are described by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality. Topics he has worked on during his Ph.D. include integrability in discrete-space time, soliton hydrodynamics, anomalous transport and dynamical criticality. He has demonstrated that charged single-file systems form a new dynamical universality class which surprisingly also appears in a class of integrable models.