Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Antonino Di Piazza, Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and distinguished scientist at LLE, is part of an international collaboration that has been awarded a prestigious €14M European…

LLE is pleased to announce that Danae Polsin, LLE Staff Scientist and URochester Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received the American Physical Society’s 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award…

Congratulations to David Alex Chin, who was recently selected by the American Physical Society (APS) as the winner of the 2026 GCCM (Topical Group on Compression of Condensed Matter) Student…

We are pleased to announce that LLE Scientist David Turnbull was recently selected by the Council of Representatives of the American Physical Society (APS) to become an APS Fellow. This…

LLE scientists Patrick McKenty and Stephen Craxton and two former members of the LLE High School program, Emma Garcia and Yujia Yang, have been recognized as co-authors of a paper…

Congratulations to LLE Assistant Scientist Will Trickey and to doctoral student Victor (Yu) Zhang, whose work was recently selected for inclusion in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection—the third collection…

Congratulations to LLE Distinguished Scientist Gilbert (Rip) Collins on his recent election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and prestigious…

Congratulations to LLE Scientist Varchas Gopalaswamy, who has recently been awarded the 2024 European Physical Society–Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize. This award, which honors exceptional…