
Eduardo Rodriguez, a 2022 graduate of the Program in Plasma Physics in the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, has won the 2024 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society (APS). The highly competitive honor recognizes “exceptional early-career scientists who have performed original thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of plasma physics.”
The citation for Rodriguez’s award reads "For fundamental and path-breaking discoveries in the theory of quasisymmetric magnetic fields and their applications to stellarators." Eduardo is now a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics at Greifswald (Germany).
Congratulations Eduardo on this significant accomplishment!
Princeton alums have now received 5 of the last 8 such awards.