Marcel Franz is a Professor of Physics at The University of British Columbia and a Deputy Scientific Director of The Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. He obtained his PhD at The University of Rochester in 1994 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and McMaster and Johns Hopkins universities before joining the faculty of The University of British Columbia in 2000. Franz is a leading expert in theories of topological quantum matter, unconventional superconductivity and strongly correlated electron systems. His group has made a number of significant advances in these fields including the recent prediction of high-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted bilayers of cuprate superconductors. Franz
has received numerous awards and recognitions for his contributions including the A.P. Sloan Fellowship (2002), Killam Research Fellowship (2007), CAP Brockhouse Medal (2024) and has been elected Fellow of the APS (2014) and The Royal Society of Canada (2022).