After receiving his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Gerardo Ortiz continued his career in the US, first, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then as an Oppenheimer fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he stayed as a permanent staff member until 2006. He is currently working in the Department of Physics at Indiana University, Bloomington. His scientific career has spanned a large variety of topics in condensed matter physics and quantum information science, including electron fluids and solids, topological quantum matter, high-temperature superconductivity, quantum critical phenomena, cold atom physics, and entangled-quantum probes of matter, among others.