The annual Universities Research Association awards ceremony took place at Fermilab on June 29, recognizing four researchers whose work is done at Fermilab or in collaboration with Fermilab scientists.
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Donato Passarelli’s contributions to the advancement of superconducting radio frequency technology over the past decade have earned him the inaugural Universities Research Association’s Engineering Award.
Associate scientist Jennifer Ngadiuba received two top awards last fall to advance artificial intelligence and machine-learning research in high-energy physics.
Xingchen Xu has received the 2023 Frank Sacherer Prize from the European Physical Society for his work developing a new type of niobium-tin superconductor.
In the first live ceremony since 2019, the lab’s Office of Partnerships and Technology Transfer hosted an event to honor Fermilab researchers for their numerous inventions, patents, disclosures and awards in 2022.
The students received the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award to conduct their doctoral research at Fermilab.
The Quantum Horizons award from the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics enables a new collaboration between the Fermilab-hosted SQMS Center, Jefferson Lab and the University of Waterloo to create beyond the state-of-the-art quantum devices.
The scientists have been selected 2022 fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinction awarded each year to no more than one-half of 1% of current APS members by their peers.
Astrophysicist Maria Vincenzi won the award for her thesis, which created a process for preventing Dark Energy Survey data from being thrown out due to contamination from unusable supernovae.
Grassellino received a 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize as a researcher for her work and impact in the particle accelerator technology and quantum science fields.