Month: February 2021

In 2018 a group of researchers in the Netherlands reported the discovery of a Majorana fermion – an important candidate for comprising the qubits in topological quantum computing. Unfortunately the paper had to be retracted. In the news reports on this retraction, our very own Sumanta Tewari (who was not involved in the retracted study) was asked to comment. Read more about the study, its retraction, and Sumanta’s comments here.

Please join me in congratulating Lea Marcotulli for earning a NASA Hubble Fellowship. Open to astrophysicists around the world within three years of earning their PhD, this is among the most prestigious prize fellowships available to young astrophysicists. This year, there were 24 fellowships awarded, and Lea will be taking hers to work at Yale. Her scholarship is focused on the study of Active Galactic Nuclei. Using observational tools spanning the electromagnetic spectrum, she studies the accreting supermassive blackholes at the center of these galaxies. This is a great honor for Lea and a testament to her hard work, talent, and creativity.