Prof. Cristiano Ciuti, head of the MPQ laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious Friedel-Volterra Prize from the French and Italian Physical Societies (SFP and SIF), “for his outstanding contributions to light-matter interactions and cavity quantum electrodynamics in the ultrastrong coupling regime.”
Link to the annoucement on the SFP website
Link to the annoucement on the SIF website
The formal Friedel-Volterra Prize award ceremony will take place on September 14, 2020 in Milan, Italy, during the opening ceremony of the 106th SIF National Congress.
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