Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

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…

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…

Matthew Cufari, a participant in LLE’s 2018 Summer High School Research Program, has been awarded the 2024 US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship. This…

Jeremy Pigeon, a Scientist in the Plasma & Ultrafast Laser Science & Engineering Division, has been awarded a 2024 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) grant, which spans three years with…