Professor Brian Metzger is the first Blavatnik National Awards Laureate from Columbia. The awards specifically recognizes Brian’s work on the origin of gold among his many other theoretical discoveries. For more details please click here.

Cory Dean, PhD (Columbia University) – Cory Dean kicked off a revolution in experimental physics. Working with a unique class of two-dimensional materials called van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure materials—very thin materials made of single atomic layers stacked and held together by weak forces—Dean’s breakthrough experimental techniques sparked a completely new field of study known as “twistronics”.