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IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in General Relativity and Gravitation

AC2 is pleased to announce the award of IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize (before: Young Scientist Prizes) in General Relativity and Gravitation to the below recipients in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the areas of physics within the remit of the Affiliated Commission.

2022

Katerina Chatziioannou, California Institute of Technology

For exceptional contributions to gravitational-wave astrophysics and the effort to constrain the equation of state of nuclear matter from neutron-star mergers.

2021

Christopher Berry, University of Glasgow/Northwestern University.

For key contributions to gravitational-wave discoveries, mentoring and leadership to support the research community, and effective public outreach.

2020

Davide Gerosa, University of Birmingham

2019

Kent Yagi, University of Virginia

2018

Samuel E. Gralla, University of Arizona
For his exceptional and broadly varied contributions to general relativity and relativistic astrophysics.

2017

Aron Wall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
For his fundamental contributions to our understanding of gravitational entropy and the generalized second law of thermodynamics.

2016

Ivan Agullo, Louisiana State University
For his outstanding contributions to the physics of the early universe and possible observational consequences of quantum gravity.

2015

Nicolas Yunes, Montana State University
For his wide-ranging and important contributions to the field of gravitational wave astrophysics.

2014

Jorge E. Santos, Stanford University and Cambridge University
For finding the first example of a classical gravitational instability of an asymptotically flat vacuum higher-dimensional black hole solution; for using numerical methods to construct novel anti-de Sitter black hole solutions and using these to explore the connections between gravitational systems and inhomogeneous strongly coupled condensed matter systems.

2013

Lisa Barsotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For her numerous contributions to the development of gravitational wave detectors, especially for leading the demonstration of the utility of squeezed light in improving gravitational wave detector performance.

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