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IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Computational Physics

2024

Dr. Yang Zhang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2023

Dr. Sinéad Griffin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California

2022

Stephen Carr, Brown University, USA

2021

Prineha Narang, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University

2020

Prof Zhijun WangChinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2019

Dr. Jesus Carrete MontanaTU Wien, Vienna, Austria

2018

Dr. Noa MaromCarnegie Mellon University, USA

2017

Dr Glen Evenbly, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

2016

Dr. Jianwei SunUniversity of Texas at El Paso
For his innovative and deep achievements in developing efficient and accurate density functionals for quantum chemistry, materials science, and condensed matter physics.

2015

Dr. Wei-Min WangInstitute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
For his significant achievements in computational plasma physics with applications to advanced schemes of inertial confined fusion and novel laser-plasma based particle accelerators and radiation sources.

2014

Professor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
For the development of appropriate methods to allow realistic atomistic simulation of molten salts and ionic liquids in situations of relevance to electrochemistry.” 

2013

No award

2012

Prof. Roger Melko (University of Waterloo, Canada)

For his innovative and deep achievements in developing quantum Monte Carlo methods for quantum information theory and condensed matter physics.

2011

Professor Stefano Curtarolo, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Physics, Duke University
For pioneering high-throughput combinatorial computational materials science, for the creation of on-line materials development techniques, and for the development
of thermodynamic models for nano-catalysts.

2010

Professor, Dr. Philipp Werner, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
For the development and implementation of quantum Monte Carlo methods which have transformed the study of interacting electrons in solids.

2009

Dr. Amanda S. Barnard, CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering, Australia

2008

Dr. Naoki Yoshida, Department of Physics, Nagoya University

2007

Professor Stefano Sanvito, School of Physics, Trinity College in Dublin