2026 ACS-Moore Postdoctoral Bridge Award in Quantum Materials

Congratulations to Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Hong Kuan Ng, Pavel Nosov, and Yiran Zhang on receiving the 2026 ACS-Moore Postdoctoral Bridge Award in Quantum Materials! The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) was proud to nominate this outstanding group for the award and is delighted to see their strong candidacy recognized by the sponsors. The ACS-Moore Postdoctoral Bridge Award in Quantum Materials is a partnership between the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The Physics Department Awardees of the 2026 ACS-Moore Postdoctoral Bridge in Quantum Materials
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L. Mahadevan Receives Inaugural Suzanne Eaton Award
L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics if the recipient of the 2026 Suzanne Eaton Physics of Life Award. His work has helped define physics of life by showing how a...
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Chung Named McKnight Scholar
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Prof. SueYeon Chung as a 2026 McKnight Scholar. The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and...
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2026 Hertz Fellowships
Congratulatons to our students—past, present, and future—on being awarded Hertz Foundation Fellowhips in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics: Andrew Chu '26, Elizabeth Kozlov '25, Miller MacDonald '26, Nikhil Seshadri '26, and Eric Zhu...
Headshots of 2026 Hertz Fellows: Andrew Chu , Elizabeth Kozlov, Miller MacDonald, Nikhil Seshadri,  and Eric Zhu

Kang-Kuen Ni receives Brown Investigator Award
Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, has been named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators, a cohort of midcareer faculty recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry. Each...
Kang-Kuen Ni with two students in her lab.

Chung Awarded Aramont Fellowship  for Emerging Science Research
Congratulations to Prof. SueYeon Chung, a recipient of the Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research for “The Physics of Intelligence: Linking Neural Representations and AI Safety and Alignment.” AI systems increasingly influence decisions...
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Khalaf, Mitrano Receives 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships
Congratulations to Professors Eslam Khalaf and Matteo Mitrano, who are among the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2026! Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and...
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Yao Awarded 2025 OYRA Ardentec Prize
Prof. Norman Yao has been awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award (otherwise known as OYRA Ardentec Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers “for [his] seminal experimental and theoretical contributions at the...
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Argüelles-Delgado Wins RCSA Bridge Award
Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado for winning an award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) for his research project Probing the Nature of Mass with Neutrino Telescopes. RCSA has awarded $800,000 to 11 Cottrell...
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