Misha Stephanov named UIC Distinguished Professor
Introduction
Professor Misha Stephnov has been named a distinguished professor in the 2025-2026 academic year. The UIC Distinguished Professorship was created to recruit and recognize persons who have made a significant impact upon their field through scholarship, creativity, and leadership.
Mikhail Stephanov, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago. An internationally renowned theoretical physicist, his research has made pioneering contributions to quantum chromodynamics that have profoundly influenced the understanding of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. His predictions of new phenomena during collisions of atoms at ultra-high speeds have inspired experimentalists for over a quarter century, resulting in a massive upgrade of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and enabling active experimental programs at this site.