Dmitri Basov joined Columbia in 2016 as the Higgins Professor of Physics. Currently, he serves as the Director of Energy Frontier Research Center in Programmable Quantum Materials and as the co-Director jointly with Andrew Millis of the New York City - Max Planck Society Center in Non-equilibrium Quantum Phenomena.

Professor Elena Aprile has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”

Professor Elena Aprile was featured in the April 7, 2020 edition of the NY Times. The article is on the impact of the Coronavirus and her XENON Dark Matter experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground in Italy.