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MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows Eight MIT faculty andย 22 additional MIT alumni are among 126 early-career researchers honored with 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships honor exceptional ...

Anna-Christina Eilers and physics alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

20.02.2026 15:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Demystifying college for enlisted veterans and service members โ€œI went into the military right after high school, mostly because I didnโ€™t really see the value of academics,โ€ says Air Force veteran and MIT sophomore Justin Cole. His perspective on education shifte...

Professor Michael McDonald teaches enlisted veterans and service members at the MIT Warrior-Scholar Project STEM boot camp every summer and co-manages the program.

20.01.2026 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anna Frebel Receives Digital Science Communication Fellowship The MIT Kavli Institute is proud to announce that Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics and Division Head for Astrophysics, has been selected for the 2026 Digital Science Communication Fellowship, an elit...

Congratulations Anna!

20.01.2026 15:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to unravel. But theyโ€™ll need to be large and stable enough to efficiently perf...

Felix Knollmann, a current graduate student, is one of the paper's lead authors.

20.01.2026 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Eighteen MIT faculty honored as โ€œCommitted to Caringโ€ for 2025-27 At MIT, a strong spirit of mentorship shapes how students learn, collaborate, and imagine the future. In a time of accelerating change โ€” from breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to the evolving r...

Congratulations to Erin Kara and Lina Necib!!!

20.01.2026 15:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for โ€œMagic Angleโ€ Discovery PRESS RELEASE FUNDACIร“N BBVA The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin) an...

Congratulations to our Pablo Jarillo-Herrero!

20.01.2026 15:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A quantum leap for programming Si-Hui Tan, PhD โ€™10

A Quantum Leap: How Si-Hui Tan, PhD โ€™10 Is Rewriting the Future of Code physics.mit.edu?p=23405 (Link redirects to article by Stephanie M. McPherson, SM โ€™11 for MIT Technology Review - Photo credit: Conor McCabe)

08.01.2026 19:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics Department Job #AJO30892, Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Physics, Physics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

We are hiring for a joint tenure-track Assistant Professor with the @MIT_SCC! At the intersection of AI and Physics, the role will involve doing relevant research on any aspect of AI and Physics, broadly defined. Deadline December 1, 2025! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30892

25.11.2025 16:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atomโ€™s nucleus Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atomโ€™s nucleus, using the atomโ€™s own electrons as โ€œmessengersโ€ within a molecule. In a study appearing today in the journal Science, the p...

โ€œOur results lay the groundwork for subsequent studies aiming to measure violations of fundamental symmetries at the nuclear level,โ€ says study co-author Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz. โ€œThis could provide answers to some of the most pressing questions in modern physics.โ€

24.10.2025 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why some quantum materials stall while others scale People tend to think of quantum materials โ€” whose properties arise from quantum mechanical effects โ€” as exotic curiosities. But some quantum materials have become a ubiquitous part of our computer har...

In a new study, MIT researchers, including Professor Liang Fu, evaluated quantum materialsโ€™ potential for scalable commercial success โ€” and identified promising candidates. #cmt
physics.mit.edu/news/why-som...

15.10.2025 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the precision of atomic clocks. An atomic clock keeps time by relying on the โ€œtic...

A new method turns down quantum noise that obscures the โ€œtickingโ€ of atoms, and could enable stable, transportable atomic clocks. #atomicphysics #VladanVuletic
physics.mit.edu/news/mit-phy...

10.10.2025 14:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Riccardo Comin, two MIT alumni named 2025 Moore Experimental Physics Investigators MIT associate professor of physicsย Riccardo Comin hasย been selected as 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator by theย Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Two MIT physics alumni โ€” Gyu-Boong Jo PhD โ€™10 of...

Congratulations!
physics.mit.edu/news/riccard...

10.10.2025 14:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope The following article is adapted from a joint press release issued today by MIT and the Giant Magellan Telescope. MIT is lending its support to theย Giant Magellan Telescope, joining the international ...

Big news: MIT is joining the Giant Magellan Telescope consortium!

This $2.6B observatory in Chile will have 5ร— the light-gathering power of todayโ€™s telescopes, enabling breakthroughs in exoplanets, black holes, and more.

#MIT #GMT #Astrophysics

30.09.2025 17:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Junior Peรฑa, neutrino hunter Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Junior Peรฑa learned to keep his eyes down and his schedule full. In his neighborhood, a glance could invite trouble, and many kidsโ€”including his older brotherโ€”...

At MITโ€™s Formaggio Lab, Junior Peรฑaโ€™s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particleโ€™s massโ€”and refine the fundamental laws of physics in the process.
physics.mit.edu/news/junior-...

26.09.2025 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction?
Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction? YouTube video by World Science Festival

Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction?

Prof Daniel Harlow joins Brian Greene to explore black holes, holography, and the surprising connection between spacetime and algorithms that perform quantum error correction.

04.04.2025 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Plessโ€™s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025 The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Plessโ€™s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025
Pless has made significant contributions to the fields of Experimental Particle Physics, Heavy ion collisions research, and Neutrino Astrophysics.

10.03.2025 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

Congratulations! Professor Netta Engelhardt honored with 2025 DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

15.01.2025 16:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD โ€™61, professor emeritus and X-ray astronomy pioneer, dies at 93 ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

Longtime MIT faculty member, Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD '61, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at Salem Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. He used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASAโ€™s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. #RIP

03.12.2024 20:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AXIS mission selected as NASA Astrophysics Probe competition finalist ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

"If selected to move forward," explains Erin Kara, associate professor of physics and deputy principal investigator for AXIS, "AXIS will answer some of the biggest mysteries in modern astrophysics."

30.10.2024 11:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

MIT Physics awardees include Professor Vladan Vuletiฤ‡, graduate student Jiliang Hu โ€™19, PhD โ€™24; as well as 5 alumni. New APS Fellows include Professor Joseph Checkelsky and 4 alumni. Congrats to all!

28.10.2024 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The discovery that stuck โ€” 20 years of graphene Two decades of 2D materials.

In 2004, physicists reported something remarkable: they had isolated ultrathin films of carbon atoms using sticky tape alone, and found that the films had astounding properties. The finding would forever change condensed-matter physics.

23.10.2024 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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An exotic materials researcher with the soul of an explorer ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job as a physics professor and exotic materials researcher is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data. โ€œThatโ€™s what makes it all worthwhile.โ€

16.10.2024 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pablo Jarillo Herrero - Citation Laureate 2024 in Physics
Pablo Jarillo Herrero - Citation Laureate 2024 in Physics YouTube video by Clarivate

Professor Pablo Jarillo Herrero, a Clarivate Citation Laureate 2024 and distinguished physicist, discusses his groundbreaking research in condensed matter physics.

10.10.2024 14:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An interstellar instrument takes a final bow ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

John Belcher, the Class of 1922 Professor of Physics, who was a member of the original team that designed and built the plasma spectrometers, and John Richardson, principal research scientist at MIT Kavli, who is the experimentโ€™s principal investigator, offered their reflections.

02.10.2024 15:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Next Quantum Revolution ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

MIT has long been a pioneer of quantum technologies. Now, Quantum@MIT is setting the stage for a new era

27.09.2024 13:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How did dark matter shape the universe? This physicist has ideas Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.

Among scientists doing such work, โ€œI donโ€™t think thereโ€™s been anybody whoโ€™s been more impactful,โ€ says Dan Hooper, a physicist at the University of Chicago. โ€œSheโ€™s as big a deal as I can make her out to be.โ€

26.09.2024 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmologyโ€™s two biggest puzzles ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

โ€œYou have these two looming open-ended puzzles,โ€ says study co-author Rohan Naidu, a postdoc in MITโ€™s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. โ€œWe find that in fact, early dark energy is a very elegant and sparse solution to two of the most pressing problems in cosmology.โ€

13.09.2024 13:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sara Seager, among three MIT professors, accepted this year's prestigious Kavli Prize from King Harald V of Norway in Oslo on Sept. 3. Congratulations again to Professor Seager!

10.09.2024 13:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When the lights turned on in the universe ยป MIT Physics The Official Website of MIT Department of Physics

By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika ฤŽurovฤรญkovรก is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed.

16.08.2024 14:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scientific InQueery
Scientific InQueery In "Scientific InQueery," MIT PhD students Jack Forman and Miranda Dawson, with MIT alum Tunahan Aytas, interviewed queer MIT faculty about their experiences and the importance of visibility. As co-leads of LGBTQ+ Grad, the producers created the project to inspire young LBGTQ+ academics to take pride in the intersections of their identities and their academic work. The video features Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and the dean of the School of Science; Sebastian Lourido, Associate Professor of Biology; Lorna Gibson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Bryan Bryson, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering; Tunahan Aytas, PhD โ€˜23 in Materials Science and Engineering; Miranda Dawson, PhD candidate in Biological Engineering, and Jack Forman, PhD candidate in Media Arts & Sciences. Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2024/scientific-inqueery-researchers-discuss-queer-visibility-in-academia-0613

โ€œPeople need to create spaces for researchers to be able to discuss their scientific work and also be queer,โ€ says Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and dean of the MIT School of Science.

14.06.2024 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0