The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today the 2023 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado is among 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
Since 1988, the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering have encouraged blue-sky thinking by providing maximum flexibility through unrestricted funds that can be used in any way the Fellows choose, including paying for necessities like child care. This flexibility allows Fellows to take risks and pursue trailblazing research, which has led to critical advancements that impact our daily lives from detecting viruses and improving our public health response to outbreaks, to gene-editing technology that is affecting how we tackle diseases, to understanding our changing climate and how animals and ecosystems will adapt.
The Argüelles-Delgado Lab uses neutrinos produced in some of the most violent processes in the Universe to search for signatures of new physics that could shed light to the origin of neutrino masses and theories of quantum gravity.
Read the Harvard Gazette story.