05\/19\/2026 Nileema Sharma received the MSE Innovation Fellowship at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
05\/08\/2026 Xiaolong Liu and co-PIs received an NSF MRI award to acquire helium recovery equipment for new quantum and physical science research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
04\/15\/2026 Matt Toole received the Distinguished Research Award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
03\/31\/2026 Nileema Sharma won the Outstanding MSE Student Paper Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
02\/24\/2026 Matt Toole received the Graduate Student Government Conference Presentation Grant (GSG-CPG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
01\/23\/2026 Nileema Sharma received the Graduate School Professional Development Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
01\/12\/2026 Nileema Sharma received the APS DMP Ovshinsky Travel Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
01\/09\/2026 Matt Toole received the Scientific Artificial Intelligence (SAI) Initiative Graduate Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
08\/13\/2025 “Scientists visualize interference between competing superfluids at atomic scale”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 08\/07\/2025 Xiaolong Liu received the NSF CAREER award (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 06\/19\/2025 Nileema Sharma was selected as an Edison Innovation Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/30\/2025 Emma Laboe is the recipient of the 2025 Paul Chagnon Award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/30\/2025 Both James McKenzie and Matt Toole received the Stavropoulos Prize for the Best Graduate Student Poster during the GPAS conference (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/16\/2025 Nileema Sharma received the Distinguished Research Award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 01\/06\/2025 Nileema Sharma received a DCMP Travel Award from APS to attend the 2025 march meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 08\/02\/2024 Xiaolong Liu received a DOE grant to investigate unconventional superconductivity via advanced scanning tunneling microscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 04\/26\/2024 Nileema Sharma won the Stavropoulos Prize for the Best Graduate Student Poster at the GPAS Conference (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 02\/08\/2024 Xiaolong Liu and colleagues at Notre Dame received a DOE grant to tune and enhance Berry curvatures in superconductors (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 08\/11\/2023 “New type of microscope leads physicist to discover pair density wave state in an unexpected superconductor”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 07\/19\/2023 Nileema Sharma won the Materials Science and Engineering Fellowship<\/a> at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6\/21\/2023 Xiaolong Liu won the 2023 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6\/13\/2023 Xiaolong Liu and Xiangliang Zhang received a Seed Transformative Interdisciplinary Research grant from Notre Dame to integrate computer science into condensed matter physics research (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/07\/2023 Matt Toole won the Materials Science and Engineering Fellowship<\/a> at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12\/12\/2022 “Physics professor Xiaolong Liu furthers quantum physics research with development of new device”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11\/21\/2022 Matthew Toole (2022 Summer REU) won the 2022-2023 College of the Sciences and Mathematics Academic Excellence Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 09\/21\/2022 Xiaolong Liu is the winner of the 2022 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for the “development of new types of microscopic imaging techniques, like the high-speed scanned Josephson-tunneling microscopy technique (SJTM), that explore vexing problems in quantum physics”<\/em> (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 03\/07\/2022 Xiaolong Liu is awarded the 2022 Young Scientist Prize in Low Temperature Physics by IUPAP \u201cfor his contributions to the visualization of electronic properties of superconductors and magnetic topological insulators using scanning tunnelling microscopy\u201d<\/em> (news<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 05\/19\/2026 Nileema Sharma received the MSE Innovation Fellowship at Notre Dame. 05\/08\/2026 Xiaolong Liu and co-PIs received an NSF MRI award to acquire helium recovery equipment for new quantum and physical science research. 04\/15\/2026 Matt Toole received the Distinguished Research Award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. 03\/31\/2026 Nileema Sharma won the Outstanding MSE … Continue reading “News”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4039,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}