Congratulations to Danae Polsin, a leading contributor to the Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Physics (LAPP) frontier science working group for NSF OPAL, on receiving the 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award.
Danae Polsin Receives 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award
Danae Polsin has received the American Physical Society’s 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High-Pressure Conditions. Danae champions design of the NSF OPAL flagship experimental platform “Ultrafast Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Physics” that seeks to combine three cutting-edge capabilities offered by NSF OPAL: dynamic compression, impulsive heating, and ultrafast probing. The award cites Polsin’s work “for pioneering experiments mapping the evolution of electronic and ionic structural complexity of alkali metals to terapascal conditions.”
Learn more about LAPP and the flagship experiment: https://nsf-opal.rochester.edu/frontier-science/lapp/
Read the detailed article: https://www.lle.rochester.edu/danae-polsin-receives-2026-neil-ashcroft-early-career-award/