Physics Department, Princeton University

Andrei Bernevig wins a 2011 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for his research “on understanding the existent states of matter, discovering new ones, analyzing the possible types of symmetries that these states might have, and proposing experiments that would confirm or falsify the theoretical predictions.”   To read more: http://www.packard.org/about-the-foundation/news/press-releases-and-statements/    

The thesis was advised by Prof. Verlinde. Djordje is currently a graduate student at Stanford University.