LSU Physics Professor Receives IUPAP Young Scientist Prize
BATON ROUGE - The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, as an affiliated commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), has awarded Ivan Agullo, LSU Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, with the International Society Young Scientist Prize.
The IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist award is considered
among the highest international recognitions in the field of general relativity and
gravitation for young researchers, recognizing outstanding achievements of scientists
at early stages of their career. Agullo was acknowledged “for his outstanding contributions
to the physics of the early universe and possible observational consequences of quantum
gravity.”
“The fact that the Young Scientist award is an international prize attests
to Professor Agullo's global stature in gravitational physics,” said Professor and
Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics Jorge Pullin, LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy.
The official award ceremony will be held at the GR21 conference in New
York city in July 2016.
Agullo earned his bachelor’s degree in physics, 2004, and received his
Ph.D. in physics, 2009, from the University of Valencia, Spain. He was a post-doctoral
at Penn State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Marie Curie
Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Recently, he received a five-year
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award to
support his research on the early universe. Among his honors, he received the First
Award in the prestigious Gravity Research Foundation Essay competition in 2011, and
the Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics Award from the Royal Spanish Physical
Society, also in 2011.
Contact
Mimi LaValle
LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy
225-439-5633
mlavall@lsu.edu