Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics Wins Prestigious Prize

Dr. Andrea Giusti, postdoctoral fellow in the Physics & Astronomy Department working under the supervision of Dr. Valerio Faraoni, has been awarded the Votruba Prize from the Doppler Institute in Prague for the best PhD thesis in theoretical physics (a thesis he defended in December 2018 at Ludwig-Maximilians Universiteit in Munich, Germany/en cotutelle with U. Bologna, Italy). This prize, established to honour the author of the best doctoral thesis in theoretical physics, was named after renowned scientist Václav Votruba, founder of modern Czech theoretical physics.

In their citation for the 2019 prize, the members of the Votruba committee note that the prize was awarded “for the thesis On the corpuscular theory of gravity, representing an important contribution to the theory of black holes and cosmology in the corpuscular version of gravity theory.”

This is not the first time Dr. Giusti’s scholarship has been acknowledged by the academic community: he was also awarded the Augusto Righi Prize by the Italian Physical Society in September 2017, which honours young physicists who have distinguished themselves in their studies and research activities.