University of Rochester and LLE Faculty and Collaborator Receive 2025 PECASE Award

Last week, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)—the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding early-career scientists and engineers. Honorees include three University of Rochester faculty members—Petros Tzeferacos, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Senior Scientist at LLE, Ehsan Hoque, Professor of Computer Science, and William Renninger, Associate Professor of Optics and Associate Professor of Physics—as well as Franklin Dollar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, who is a co-principal investigator on the NSF OPAL project.

Tzeferacos, who was nominated for his research on high-energy-density magnetized plasma turbulence, is also the director of the Flash Center for Computational Science that develops the FLASH code—a high-performance simulation code for plasma physics and astrophysics used by thousands of scientists around the world.

For more information, please visit the University of Rochester’s News Center. In the meantime, congratulations to all on receiving this prestigious honor!