Early Career Scientist Prizes
Announcement of Early Career Scientist Prize 2025
The C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the IUPAP has selected the following scientists for the Early Career Science Award of the IUPAP:
Daniel M. Busiello
Lorenzo Caprini
Nicole Yunger Halpern
Congratulations to the awardees!
The award ceremony will take place at the StatPhys29 conference in Florence, 13-18 July, 2025.
Janos Kertesz (Chair of C3)
Cristina Marchetti (Vice-Chair of C3)
Chao Tang (Secretary of C3)
Daniel M. Busiello
Short biography
Laudatio for Daniel M. Busiello
Dr. Daniel Busiello receives the Early Career Scientist Award in Statistical Physics for their outstanding research in the field of nonequilibrium chemical systems. In exemplary collaboration with experimentalists, Dr. Busiello has created a most promising synergistic approach based on stochastic thermodynamics, chemical networks, molecular biology, and information theory.
Lorenzo Caprini
Short biography
Laudatio for Lorenzo Caprini
Dr. Lorenzo Caprini receives the Early Career Scientist Award in Statistical Physics for their outstanding work on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and stochastic processes extending to soft matter with applications in biologically inspired systems. Specifically, Dr. Caprini provided eminent contributions in active matter, taking energy from the environment to sustain their motion, such as bacteria, active colloids or active granular particles.
Nicole Yunger Halpern
Short biography
Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical quantum physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Nicole completed her PhD at Caltech, then worked as an ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She now leads the Quantum-Steampunk Laboratory at the University of Maryland and co-leads the Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub.