Our faculty are recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions to research, teaching, and service. This page highlights recent honors and awards received by members of the department, reflecting the breadth and impact of their work across disciplines.
2026
Henric Krawczynski
Bruno Rossi Prize
For pioneering contributions to the theory, instrumentation, and scientific interpretation of X-ray polarimetry.
Xi Wang
NSF CAREER Award
Creating and studying a new class of quantum materials built from atomically thin layers
Trevor GrandPre
Scientific American Young Scientist Award
For research that seeks to explain how liquid-like droplets called condensates form inside cells.
Mikhail Tikhonov
Harvard-Radcliffe Fellowship
For work involving developing a high-dimensional modeling framework to explore how evolutionary dynamics stabilize or destabilize complex ecosystems.
2025
Li Yang
Fellow of the American Physical Society
For developing and utilizing ab initio simulations to understand many-electron interactions at the nanoscale and predicting emerging electronic, optical, and magnetic properties in reduced-dimensional structures.
Mikhail Tikhonov
NIH MIRA Grant
Mark Alford
Humboldt Research Award
For contributions to the research on the properties of quark matter and color superconducting phases at high densities.
2024
Mikhail Tikhonov
NSF CAREER Award
Towards efforts to describe microbial ecosystems using the concepts of statistical physics.
Bhupal Dev
Humboldt Research Fellowship
To develop the connection between neutrinos and dark matter.
2022
Erik Henriksen
Moore Experimental Physics Investigator
To investigate the physics of quantum spin liquids
2021
Maria Piarulli
DOE Career Award
For the use of Quantum Monte Carlo methods to accurately describe atomic nuclei while simultaneously predicting properties of infinite matter.
Shankar Mukherji
NIH MIRA Grant
To understand the role of systems-level organelle dynamics plays in regulating cellular metabolism and growth
2020
Erik Henriksen
NSF CAREER Award
To explore many-particle physics in atomically-thin materials using a combination of electronic measurements and infrared magneto-spectroscopy.
Jim Buckley
American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
Foundational work in the development of the dark matter search techniques and for the study of gamma rays from active galaxies and supernovae.
2017
Chuanwei Zhang
American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
2013
