Edoardo Baldini Awarded Ludwig-Genzel-Prize 2025
The UT Austin physicist won for “exceptional contributions to the field of condensed-matter spectroscopy.”
Edoardo Baldini of The University of Texas at Austin has been announced as the recipient for an award given every two years in recognition of “exceptional contributions to the field of condensed-matter spectroscopy.”
The Ludwig-Genzel-Prize 2025 was awarded to the assistant professor in the Department of Physics during the International Conference on Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids (LEES), which took place in June in Busan, South Korea.
Baldini’s prize recognized his outstanding work in “the development and application of nonlinear spectroscopy to magnetic systems” and recognized his leadership in an emerging field “at the intersection of quantum condensed matter physics and nonlinear spectroscopy.”
Baldini is an assistant professor and faculty researcher in UT’s Texas Quantum Institute, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Texas Materials Institute and Center for Dynamics & Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC. He is the recipient of numerous early-career awards including a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR YIP Award, and a Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Research Award. His research has led to groundbreaking results, particularly in the study and manipulation of collective modes in quantum materials.
In recognizing his contributions, the prize committee noted that Baldini has “measured the magnetoelectric coupling in atomically thin multiferroics, uncovering the chiral nature of their coupled magnetoelectric oscillations (and)…demonstrated the natural optical activity of magnon modes in 2D materials,” among many other accomplishments.
Sponsored by Bruker Optics and organized through the University of Stuttgart in Germany, the Ludwig-Genzel-Prize 2025 comes with a prize of €4,000.
