Faculty Chairs and Professorships

Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information

The Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information shall be appointed to a distinguished member of the UC Santa Cruz faculty researching fundamental questions at the interface of physics and related fields including mathematics, complex systems, biophysics and cognitive science, with the unifying theme of information in physics.

Anthony’s research is on cosmological inflation and eternal inflation, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, foundations of quantum mechanics, black hole evaporation and interiors, the role of information theory in physics, and thermodynamic and statistical arguments in a multiverse.