Michael Gullans is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Gullans’s research interests center on the theoretical study of quantum information systems and quantum simulators in nonperturbative and strongly-interacting limits. He received his doctorate in quantum optics and condensed matter theory from Harvard University in 2013.