IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prizes

The Editors of the Physical Review journals congratulate the winners of the 2025 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize, who were awarded at STATPHYS 29 in Florence, Italy, along with all of the winners of the previous editions of the prize. 
To celebrate the contributions of all the awardees, the Editors present a selection of their work published in the Physical Review journals.

2025 Selected Papers

Daniel M. Busiello

Lorenzo Caprini

Information Propagation in Multilayer Systems with Higher-Order Interactions across Timescales.

Hidden velocity ordering in dense suspensions of self-propelled disks.

Nicole Yunger Halpern

Jarzynski-like equality for the out-of-time-ordered correlator.

2022 Selected Papers

Kyogo Kawaguchi

Camille Scalliet

Fluctuation theorem for hidden entropy production.

Thirty Milliseconds in the Life of a Supercooled Liquid.

Suraj Shankar

Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces.

2019 Selected Papers

Lucile Savary

Manlio De Domenico

Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores.

Mathematical Formulation of Multilayer Networks.

Alexandre Solon

Dynamic Scaling of Two-Dimensional Polar Flocks.

2016 Selected Papers

Martin Lenz

Lisa Manning

Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling.

Motility-Driven Glass and Jamming Transitions in Biological Tissues.

2013 Selected Papers

Takahiro Sagawa

Kazumasa Takeuchi

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of feedback control.

Partial Yet Definite Emergence of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Class in Isotropic Spin Chains

2010 Selected Papers

Davide Marenduzzo

Steady-state hydrodynamic instabilities of active liquid crystals: Hybrid lattice Boltzmann simulations

2007 Selected Papers

Giulio Biroli

Tomohiro Sasamoto

Effect of Rare Fluctuations on the Thermalization of Isolated Quantum Systems

Exact Solution of the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory for the Symmetric Exclusion Process

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