# Department News Archive: Faculty Awards ## expand\_more ### 2026: - Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: **Julia Mundy** - John Stewart Bell Prize: **Mikhail Lukin** - Brown Investigator Award: **Kang-Kuen Ni** - Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2025: **Michael Brenner**, **Douglas** **Finkbeiner,** **Markus Greiner**, **Efthimios Kaxiras**, **Philip Kim**, **Mikhail Lukin**, **Hongkun Park**, **Andrew Strominger**, **Ashvin Vishwanath**, **David Weitz**, **Suyang Xu**, and **Xiaowei Zhuang** - McKnight Scholar **Sue-Yeon Chung** - National Academy of Sciences **L. Mahadevan** - National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Fellowship: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) Ardentec Prize: **Norman Yao** - Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Bridge Award: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - Sloan research Fellows: **Eslam Khalaf, Matteo Mitrano** ### 2025: - American Academy of Arts and Sciences: **Hongkun Park** - U.S. ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award: **John Huth** - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: ATLAS Collaboration (Harvard Physics faculty: **Melissa Franklin, John Huth, and Masahiro Morii** - Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2024: **Michael Brenner**, **Markus Greiner**, **Efthimios Kaxiras**, **Philip Kim**, **Mikhail Lukin**, **Hongkun Park**, **Ashvin Vishwanath**, **David Weitz**, **Suyang Xu**, **Norman Yao**, and **Xiaowei Zhuang** - Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship: **Stefan Knirck**, **Matthew Reece**, **Sunghan Ro**, **Christopher Stubbs**, and **Norman Yao** - Frontiers of Science Award: **Bertrand I. Halperin**, **Daniel Jafferis**, and **Andrew Strominger** - German Research Foundation Mercator Fellow: **Matteo Mitrano** - GSAS Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards: **Jacob Barandes** - Harvard Yearbook's Favorite Professor of the Class of 2025: **Jacob Barandes** - Honorary Doctorate, *honoris causa*, University of Pennsylvania (May 19, 2025): **Lene Hau** - William F. Meggers Award: **John Doyle** - National Academy of Sciences: **John Doyle** - SCALE Capital award: **Julia Mundy** - Sloan Foundation Fellowship: **Jordan Cotler** - Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research: **John Kovac** - [University Professorship](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/harvard-appoints-four-university-professors/): **Cumrun Vafa** ### 2024: - American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow: Howard Georgi - Anya Bassett Bernstein Prize for Excellence in Teaching: **Jacob Barandes**, **Louis Deslauriers** - APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics Fellowship: **Jenny Hoffman** - ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award: **Masahiro Morii** - Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (Franklin Institute): David Weitz - Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark: **Haim Sompolinsky** - Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2023: **Michael Brenner**, **Markus Greiner**, **Efthimios Kaxiras**, **Philip Kim**, **Mikhail Lukin**, **Hongkun Park**, **Ashvin Vishwanath**, **David Weitz**, **Suyang Xu**, **Norman Yao**, and **Xiaowei Zhuang** - CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholarship: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - Cottrell Scholar Award: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - FAS Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship: **Cora Dvorkin**, **Jenny Hoffman**, **Eslam Khalaf**, **Philip Kim**, and **Amir Yacoby** - Honorary Doctorate, *honoris causa*, University of Southern Denmark (October 25, 2024) **Lene Hau** - Moore Inventor Fellowship: **Julia Mundy** - National Brown Investigator Award: **Norman Yao** - Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries: **John Doyle** - NSF CAREER award: **Julia Mundy** - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize: **Ashvin Vishwanath** - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) **Norman Yao** - PROSE Award: **Subir Sachdev** - I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: **Norman Yao** - Weldon Memorial Prize: **L. Mahadevan** ### 2023: - American Academy of Arts and Sciences: **L. Mahadeva**n - American Philosophical Society membership: **Lene Hau** - 2023 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize: **Kang-Kuen Ni** - Brilliant 10 class of 2023 (Popular Science): **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2022: **Michael Brenner, Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Su-Yang Xu, Norman Yao**, and **Xiaowei Zhuang** - Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship: **Eric Heller, Matteo Mitrano** - Foreign Member of the Royal Society in the UK: **Subir Sachdev** - Franklin Institute annual award in the sciences and business: **Philip Kim** - Harvard College Professorship: **Mara Prentiss** - International Congress for Basic Science Frontiers of Science Award: **Matthew Reece** - International Institute of Science Distinguished Lecturer, Bangalore: **David Nelson** - International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: **Philip Kim** - 2024 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter: **Matteo Mitrano** - NSF CAREER award: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - 2023 Packard Fellowship: **Carlos Argüelles-Delgado** - Sir C.V. Raman Memorial Lecturer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore: **David Nelson** - Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Chemistry: **Adam Cohen** - 2023 Simons Investigator in Physics: **Daniel Jafferis** - University Professorship: **Mikhail Lukin** - 2023 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics: **Subir Sachdev** - 2023 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research: **Vinothan Manoharan, Matteo Mitrano, Julia Mundy** - Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: **Cumrun Vafa** - Harvard Yearbook's Favorite Professor of the Class of 2023: **Jacob Barandes, Cora Dvorkin** **2022:** SortCarlos Argüelles-Delgado Science News "Scientists to Watch" Melissa Franklin Star Family Prize for Excellence in Concentration Advising Markus Greiner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Su-Yang Xu, Xiaowei Zhuang Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2021 Arthur Jaffe Fellow of the Hagler Institute at Texas A&M University Kang-Kuen Ni 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize Mikhail Lukin 2022 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries Vinothan Manoharan Capers and Marion McDonald award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising Matteo Mitrano DOE Early Career Research Program Award Julia Mundy 2022 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics Cumrun Vafa Honorary Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences Norman Yao 2022 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize **2021:** SortCarlos Argüelles-Delgado 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Astroparticle Physics Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, Roxanne Guenette Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics Eugene Demler, Markus Greiner, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2020 Eugene Demler 2021 Simons Investigator in Physics Eugene Demler 2021 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics John Doyle Herbert P. Broida Prize Gerald Holton BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Paul Horowitz SETI Institute 2021 Drake Award Mikhail Lukin Charles Hard Townes Medal L. Mahadevan 2021 Simons Investigator in Physics Eric Mazur AAAS Fellowship Matteo Mitrano Aramont Fellowship Matteo Mitrano 2021 PRISM Prize, Institute of Structure of Matter, National Research Council (ISM-CNR), Italy Julia Mundy Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research Julia Mundy 2021 DOE Early Career Research Program Award Andrew Strominger Bethe Lectureship Christopher Stubbs AAAS Fellowship Cumrun Vafa The Mustafa Prize Ashvin Vishwanath American Academy of Arts and Sciences Amir Yacoby American Academy of Arts and Sciences Xiaowei Zhuang Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences **2020:** SortEugene Demler, Markus Greiner, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2019 Eugene Demler Moore Distinguished Scholar (Caltech) John Doyle Heising-Simons Foundation: N95 Mask Decontamination Grant John Doyle Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (PolyEDM and ACME III) John Doyle Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (PolyEDM) John Doyle, Markus Greiner, Mikhail Lukin, Kang-Kuen Ni NSF NQI LBNL Quantum Systems Accelerator John Doyle, Susanne Yelin NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Enhanced Sensing and Distribution Using Correlated Quantum States Roxanne Guenette 2020 Synergy Grant (European Research Council) Lene Hau Dirac Medal (University of New South Wales and Australian Institute of Physics ) Philip Kim American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mikhail Lukin Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks Mikhail Lukin 2020 George Gamow Award Matteo Mitrano Milton Fund Award Julia Mundy Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering Andrew Strominger Guggenheim Fellowships Andrew Strominger Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics Amir Yacoby Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage Amir Yacoby EPiQS Experimental Investigator Amir Yacoby Quantum Science Center **2019:** SortEugene Demler, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ashvin Vishwanath, David Weitz, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2018 Eugene Demler Hanna Visiting Scholar (Stanford) Cora Dvorkin DoE Early Career Award Jenny Hoffman 2019 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research Johnn Huth Star Family Prize for Excellence in Concentration Advising Daniel Jafferis 2019 New Horizons In Physics Prize Vinothan Manoharan AAAS Fellow Matteo Mitrano (joining Harvard Physics faculty in July 2020) 2019 LCLS Young Investigator Award of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Julia Mundy George E. Valley, Jr. Prize Julia Mundy 2019 Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators (ETH Zurich) David Nelson Niels Bohr Medal of Honour Kang-Kuen Ni I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Hongkun Park A.R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer (University of Toronto) Lisa Randall Oskar Klein Medal Lisa Randall J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Subir Sachdev American Academy of Arts and Sciences Subir Sachdev Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, 2019 Subir Sachdev Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, 2019 Ashvin Vishwanath INFOSYS-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecturer 2019 David Weitz Nature Biotechnology Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2019 Amir Yacoby National Academy of Sciences Xiaowei Zhuang 2019 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences Xiaowei Zhuang NAS Award for Scientific Discovery **2018:** SortEugene Demler, Philip Kim, Mikhail Lukin, Ashvin Vishwanath, Amir Yacoby, Xiaowei Zhuang Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2017 Cora Dvorkin 2018-2019 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Cora Dvorkin Scientist of the Year, The Harvard Foundation Cora Dvorkin Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research Award Peter Galison Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics (APS) Bertrand Halperin APS 2019 Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research Arthur Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Philip Kim 2018 Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize Julia Mundy Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis Kang-Kuen Ni Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Mikhail Lukin National Academy of Sciences Lisa Randall Guggenheim Fellowship Subir Sachdev ICTP Dirac Medal 2018 Subir Sachdev Lars Onsager Prize Andrew Strominger APS Fellowship Xiaowei Zhuang The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics **2017:** SortMarkus Greiner APS Fellowship Arthur Jaffe Simons Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences John Kovac Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Mikhail Lukin Willis Lamb Award for Quantum Optics and Laser Science Lisa Randall Harvard Humanist Award, a lifetime achievement award for humanism in culture by The Humanist Community at Harvard and the Humanist Hub Lisa Randall Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Cumrun Vafa 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Susanne Yelin APS Fellowship **2016:** SortHoward Georgi 2016 DPF Mentoring Award, APS Division of Particles and Fields L. Mahadevan 2016 Royal Society of London Fellowship Kang-Kuen Ni Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Lisa Randall Julius Wess Award, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Andrew Strominger Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Ashvin Vishwanath 2016 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize David Weitz National Academy of Engineering **2015:** SortEugene Demler 'Distinguished Scholar' at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Eugene Demler Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics Eugene Demler Carl Friedrich Siemens Research Award Michael Desai 2015 Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems Cora Dvorkin Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2015-2018 Douglas Finkbeiner APS Fellowship Gene Golovchenko Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching Markus Greiner Blavatnik National Award Eric Heller 2015 Gutzwiller Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Jenny Hoffman Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Materials and Devices Based on Oxide Heterostructures Arthur Jaffe 2015 Friedrich Hirzebruch Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Mikhail Lukin 2015 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics Eric Mazur Elected Vice President of OSA, 2015 Kang-Kuen Ni AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award Kang-Kuen Ni 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics Lisa Randall Museum of Science Walker Prize Subir Sachdev Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics (UNSW) Christopher Stubbs 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as part of the High-Z Supernova Search Team) Xiaowei Zhuang National Academy of Science Award in Molecular Biology **2014:** SortHoward Berg Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics Adam Cohen Blavatnik National Award Eugene Demler & Subir Sachdev Moore Foundation Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Theory Research Grant Douglas Finkbeiner Rossi prize Jenny Hoffman, Philip Kim & Amir Yacoby Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials Award Daniel Jafferis 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics Philip Kim Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize Mikhail Lukin Distinguished Former Student Award, Texas A&M University L. Mahadevan 2014-2015 Radcliffe Fellowship Eric Mazur Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education. Eric Mazur "Foreign Member" of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities David Nelson 2014-2015 Radcliffe Fellowship Kang-Kuen Ni Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers) Subir Sachdev Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Salam Distinguished Lecturer Subir Sachdev National Academy of Sciences Aravi Samuel Early Concept Grant by the NFS for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Andrew Strominger Dirac Medal (ICTP) Amir Yacoby AAAS Fellow **2013:** SortJacob Barandes Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award Adam Cohen Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigato Gerald Gabrielse The Texas A&M University Trotter Prize in Information, Complexity and Inference Markus Greiner Junion BEC Award Markus Greiner Moore Foundation Measuring Quantum Entanglement Entropy in Synthetic Quantum Matter Award Markus Greiner I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular or Optical Physics (APS) Eric Heller American Philosophical Society membership Jenny Hoffman 2013-2014 Radcliffe Fellow Mikhail Lukin Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Lectureship, Max Planck Institute Eric Mazur International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) Lifetime Achievement Award Lisa Randall Scientist of the Year Award (Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations) Irwin Shapiro Einstein Prize (APS) Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa Physics Frontiers Prize (Fundamental Physics Prize Committee) Richard Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award (Atlantic Legal Foundation) Susanne Yelin Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics Xi Yin Simons Investigator (Simons Foundation) Xi Yin Sloan Research Fellowship (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) **2012:** SortEugene Demler APS Fellowship Lene Hau APS Fellowship Lene Hau Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Jenny Hoffman Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching Jenny Hoffman Roslyn Abramson Award Mikhail Lukin AAAS Fellowship David Morin Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award Lisa Randall Andrew Gemant Award Lisa Randall Harvard's Great Teachers Lisa Randall member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts Richard Wilson Andrei Sakharov Prize Richard Wilson Distinguished Educator Award (Society for Risk Analysis) Amir Yacoby APS Fellowship Xiaowei Zhuang APS Fellowship Xiaowei Zhuang AAAS Fellowship Xiaowei Zhuang member, National Academy of Sciences **2011:** SortGerald Gabrielse Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Markus Greiner McArthur Genius Grant Lene Hau Carlsberg Foundation Research Award (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters) Mikhail Lukin APS Fellowship Andrew Strominger National Academy of Sciences Fellowship Vinothan Manoharan Sloan Fellowship **2010:** SortLene Hau National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (U.S. Department of Defense) Lene Hau "World Dane 2010" ("Verdensdansker 2010", global network Danes Worldwide) Lisa Randal Membership, American Philosophical Society Lisa Randall Honorary Fellow (IoP) Lisa Randall Erna Hamburger Prize David Weitz Membership, American Academy of Arts & Sciences Xiaowei Zhuang Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics **2009:** SortLene Hau AAAS Fellow Lene Hau Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences Arthur Jaffe Honorary Members, Royal Irish Academy Mikhail Lukin 2009 I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Lisa Randall Honorary Members, Royal Irish Academy Subir Sachdev visiting Distinguished Research Chair (Perimeter Institute) Christopher Stubbs Harvard College Professor Cumrun Vafa Member, National Academy of Sciences **2008:** SortNima Arkani-Hamed Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences Lene Hau George Ledlie Prize Lene Hau Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Gerald Holton Abraham Pais Prize (APS) Gerald Holton Order of Merit by the Republic of Austria (Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, I. Klasse) Eric Mazur Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (OSA) Eric Mazur Fellow, OSA Eric Mazur (American Association of Physics Teachers) Eric Mazur member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) Hongkun Park National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Awards Lisa Randall Member, National Academy of Sciences Aravinthan Samuel National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Awards Andrew Strominger & Cumrun Vafa Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics (American Mathematical Society) Cumrun Vafa Dirac Medal (ICTP) Richard Wilson Presidential Citations (American Nuclear Society) **2007:** SortMelissa Franklin Spark Award Bertrand Halperin Dannie Heineman prize (Akadamie des Wissenschaften of Göttingen) Lisa Randall Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Richard Wilson Dixy Lee Ray Award Christopher Stubbs Gruber Cosmology Prize, shared with the members of the High-z Supernova Search team **2006:** SortEugene Demler Gutenberg Lecture Award Eric Heller Member, National Academy of Sciences Mikhail Lukin, Charles Marcus, & Amir Yacoby AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize Norman Ramsey Honorary Doctor of Science (Harvard) Richard Wilson Premio Ettore Majorana Erice Scienza per la Pace **2005:** SortGerald Gabrielse Alexander von Humboldt Research Award Howard Georgi Harvard College Professor Roy J. Glauber Nobel Prize in Physics Eric J. Heller Award in Theoretical Chemistry (American Chemical Society ) Jenny Hoffman PECASE Award (Department of Defense) Aravinthan Samuel Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Michael Tinkham Dr. Fred E. Saalfeld Award (Department of the Navy) Cumrun Vafa Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ronald Walsworth Francis M. Pipkin Award (APS) Xiaowei Zhuang Investigator (Howard Hughes Medical Institute )