Faculty News

Raúl Briceño & Raffaella Margutti receive PECASE Award

January 17, 2025
Raul Briceno and Raffaela Margutti

Assistant Professor Raúl Briceño and Associate Professor Raffaella Margutti

Two Berkeley Physics faculty members were among the nearly 400 scientists and engineers awarded by President Biden to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers...

Stuart Bale awarded the 2025 Arctowski Medal

January 23, 2025
Stuart Bale 2025

Professor Stuart Bale

Stuart D. Bale, University of California, Berkeley, has been selected to receive the 2025 Arctowski Medal.

Bale has revolutionized our understanding of the energization of and heat transport in the solar wind.

Bale’s seminal work includes the development and...

Eric Ma Receives Hellman Fellows Award

June 12, 2024

Eric Ma

June 10, 2024

The Society of Hellman Fellows has announced that Assistant Professor Eric Ma has been awarded a 2024-2025 Fellowship in support of his research proposal, Fluorescence of Optical Phonons, which delves into the high-risk, under-explored topic of the mid-infrared radiative decay...

Hitoshi Murayama receives 2024 Miller Senior Fellowship

June 7, 2024

Hitoshi Murayama

The Miller Institue has announced that Professor Hitoshi Murayama has been appointed as a Miller Senior Fellow.

The Senior Fellow Program brings selected faculty into the Institute in ways that enhance their interactions with Fellows, and other Institute members....

James Analytis Awarded a 2024 National Brown Investigator Award

May 31, 2024

Photo of Physic Chair James Analytis amid research equipment

May 29, 2024

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2024 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the first selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical sciences, particularly...

Wick Haxton Elected to the American Philosophical Society

May 23, 2024

Professor Wick Haxton

Berkeley Physics is pleased to announce that Wick Haxton has been elected to the American Philosophical Society as a member of its 2024 class. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. The APS is unusual among learned societies because...

Uros Seljak, Irfan Siddiqi elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 24, 2024

Seven newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Clockwise from upper left, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Doris Bachtrog, Uroš Seljak, Irfan Siddiqi, Mark T. D'Esposito, James Hurley and Polly Arnold. Graphic by Neil Freese/UC Berkeley

April 24, 2024

Seven UC Berkeley scientists — including Physics Professors Irfan Siddiqi and Uros Seljak — are among 250 new members...

R. Ramesh Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 7, 2024

Abby Dernburg and R. Ramesh, LBL researchers elected to NAS

Abby Dernburg, left, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh. Image: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

May 6, 2024

Abby Dernburg and Ramamoorthy Ramesh have joined the prestigious organization for scientists and engineers

Abby Dernburg and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, two...