News

  • Congratulations: Ali Yazdani, named University Professor, Princeton’s highest honor for faculty. (posted Feb. 7, 2024)

  • Congratulations to Xiaomeng Liu, who joined the Department of Physics at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor. Xiaomeng was a PCCM postdoctoral fellow with the Yazdani lab (2019-2023).

  • Congratulations to Yuwen Hu (Princeton Ph.D. July 2023), moving on as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford.

  • Congratulations to Kevin Nuckolls (Princeton Ph.D. May 2023), moving on as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, MIT.

  • Congratulations to Gelareh Farahi (Princeton Ph.D. May 2023), moving on to Apple, Inc.

  • Congratulations to Myungchul Oh, who joined the Department of Semiconductor Engineering, POSTECH, Korea as Assistant Professor. Myungchul was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Yazdani lab (2018-2023).

  • Congratulations to Dillon Wong, who joined McKesson. Dillon was a PCCM postdoctoral fellow with the Yazdani lab (2017-2023).

  • Congratulations: Xiaomeng Liu, awarded the 2023 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize. (posted April 2023)

  • Congratulations: Ali Yazdani, awarded the 2023 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for visualizing complex quantum states of matter.  (posted Oct. 2022)

  • Congratulations to Kevin Nuckolls, who was awarded the Princeton Department of Physics' Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics 2022.

  • Scientists visualize electron crystals in a quantum superposition by Tom Garlinghouse for the Dept. of Physics. (posted Feb. 2022)

  • Congratulations to Hao Ding, who joined Chongqing University as Assistant Professor of Physics. Hao was an Associate Research Scholar with the Yazdani lab 2016-2021.

  • ‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states by Tom Garlinghouse for the Dept. of Physics (posted Dec. 2020)

  • Congratulations to Mallika Randeria (Princeton Ph.D. 2019) selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2021 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics. (posted October 2020).
     
  • Congratulations to Berthold Jäckwho joined the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) as an Assistant Professor of Physics. Berthold was an associate research scholar and Humboldt Fellow with the Yazdani lab since March 2016. (posted August 2020)
     
  • Congratulations to Eduardo da Silva Neto (former Yazdani Lab grad student) who joined Yale University as an Assistant Professor of Physics. (posted July 2020)
     
  • Cascade sets the stage for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research (June 2020)
  • Congratulations: Sangjun Jeon, now an assistant professor of physics at Chung-Ang University (Republic of Korea). Sangjun was the lab manager for the Yazdani lab since January 2013. (posted August 2018)
  • Congratulations: Benjamin Feldman, now an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University. Ben was an associate research scholar and Dicke Fellow with the Yazdani lab since November 2013. (posted November 2017)
  • Congratulations: Hiroyuki Inoue, now a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Hiro was a postdoctoral research associate with the Yazdani lab since November 2014. (posted May 2017)
  • Four win awards from The Moore Foundation by Department of Physics, Princeton University (posted September 2014)
     
  • Congratulations to Ali Yazdani on receiving a Humboldt Research Award. Article by the Department of Physics, Princeton University (posted September 2014)
     
  • Congratulations: Brian Zhou now an Assistant Professor at Boston College. Brian completed his Ph.D. in 2014. 
     
  • Congratulations: Gabe Peterson, moved on as Ph.D. candidate at U. Colorado, Boulder.
    Gabe (Princeton class of 2014) worked on his junior paper and senior thesis with the Yazdani group.
     
  • Congratulations: Pegor Aynajian, now an Assistant Professor, Binghamton University. Pegor was a postdoctoral research associate with the Yazdani group since 2009. (posted August 2013)
Xiaomeng Liu and announcement that he won the 2023 LOR Science Prize
Yazdani 2023 Buckley Prize (5x5)

Congratulations: Ali Yazdani, awarded the 2023 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics. (posted Oct. 2022) full story

APS announcement of Outstanding Advocacy recipients

Congratulations to Kevin Nuckolls, selected as one of 16 recipients for the APS Physics "5 Sigma Physicists" for Outstanding Advocacy (April 2020). full story

Mallika Randeria

Mallika Randeria captures images of the quantum world (December 2019). full story

group photo of feldman, randeria and gyenis

Unusual quantum liquid on crystal surface could inspire future electronics (Oct. 2016). full story

Ali Yazdani at the RQMP’s “Grandes Conférences” (June 2016).

Ali Yazdani at the RQMP’s “Grandes Conférences” (June 2016). details

Princeton physicists N. Phuan Ong, B. Andrei Bernevig and Ali Yazdani

Princeton physicists (from left) N. Phuan Ong, B. Andrei Bernevig and Ali Yazdani are trying to harness particles known as Majorana fermions to build a quantum computer (March 2015). full story

Ilya Drozdov, Sangjun Jeon, B. Andrei Bernevig and Ali Yazdani in the lab

Capping decades of searching, Princeton scientists observe elusive particle that is its own antiparticle (October 2014). full story