Second Cohort
Meet the Awardees of the second cohort of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships! Their journey begins in 2026, and they join the first cohort in closing the gap between theory and experiments cross-training.
Anna Beever
University of Sheffield
Constraining Nuclear Fragmentation in the Aftermath of Neutrino Interactions
Christos Karapoulitidis
Stevens Institute of Technology
Testing the Gravity-Quantum Interface with Optical Lattice Atomic Clocks
Davide Tornotti
University of Milano-Bicocca
Unveiling the Universe's backbone: a new view of the gaseous cosmic web and its interplay with galaxies
Jesse Schelfhout
University of Oxford
Clock atom interferometry for fundamental physics
Joseph Aziz
Royal Holloway University of London
Testing Quantum Gravity with Cold Atoms and BECs
Laura Roberts
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI)
Testing New Physics with Interferometric Measurements of Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence
Matisse De Lescluze
Ghent University
A Quasinormal Mode approach to Nonthermal Fixed Points
Mingyao Guo
California Institute of Technology
Resolving coherent cooperative dynamics in lightwave-driven quantum materials
Rio Ondo
University of Chicago
Evolution of prebiotic proofreading
Takahiro Kanazawa
University of Chicago
Fitness landscapes from the non-linear oscillator dynamics of biological clocks
Xinpeng Wang
Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo
Bridging Theory and Observation to Illuminate the Dark Universe
First Cohort
Meet the Awardees of the first cohort of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships! Their journey begins in 2025, marking the start of our program dedicated to fostering theory and experiments cross-training.
Abhinav Patra
Cardiff University
The QUEST experiment and search for signatures of Quantum Gravity
Emil Broukal
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / IQOQI
New Directions in Table Top Quantum Gravity
Hudson Loughlin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Constructing the first quantum-enhanced clock
Kannan Vijayadharan
Università degli Studi di Padova
Exploiting high-dimensional entanglement and hyperentanglement for fundamental tests of physics
Luna Liu
Yale University
Realizing exciton condensate in two dimensions
Matthew Golden
Purdue University
Harnessing Quantum Materials for Brain-Inspired Computing
Mun Jung Jung
University of Chicago
Enabling Precision Neutrino Physics at the Intersection of Experiment and Theory
Paula Calizaya Cabrera
Louisiana State University
Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory: Proving Hawking-like Phenomena in Rotating Quantum Fluids
Raja Amdouni
NWO-I / HFML-FELIX
Pushing gravity to the limit: Thermal conductance in the quantum limit of topological matter
Ruhi Shah
University of Waterloo
Spin-motion coupling in solid-state spin systems for measurements of gravity
Takatoshi Ko
University of Tokyo
Supernova explosions produced by white dwarf binary mergers and their subsequent evolution