The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Ohio State Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. We are immensely proud of our eight winners from the department in the past two years and are looking forward to seeing what else these talented researchers accomplish in the future!
2022-23 Physics Winners
Shi Feng (advisor: Prof. Nandini Trivedi)
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Thesis Title: “On Frustrated Quantum Systems”
Heyang Long (advisor: Prof. Chris Hirata)
Theoretical Astrophysics
Thesis Title: “Impact of clumpy regions on the progress of ionizing fronts”
Jaychandran Padayasi (advisor: Prof. Ilya Gruzberg)
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Thesis Title: “Conformal invariance in statistical physics”
Zhichao (Carton) Zeng (advisor: Prof. Annika Peter)
Theoretical Astrophysics
Thesis Title: “Constraining self-interacting dark matter with simulations”
2023-24 Physics Winners
Po Wen Chang (advisor: Prof. John Beacom)
Theoretical Astrophysics
Thesis Title: “Advancing the frontier of supernova neutrino astronomy with machine learning”
Igor Lyalin (advisor: Prof. Roland Kawakami)
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Thesis Title: “Magneto-Optical Study of the Orbital Hall Effect”
Madhur Mehta (advisor: Prof. Samir Mathur)
Theoretical High Energy Physics
Thesis Title: “Through the looking glass - Black holes in String Theory”
Haidong Tian (advisor Prof. Jeanie Lau)
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Thesis Title: “Exploring Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Helical Twisted Trilayer Graphene”
