Svitlana Mayboroda receives Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Svitlana Mayboroda has been awarded the 2023 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences.
Svitlana Mayboroda is the 2023 laureate in the Physical Sciences & Engineering category for developing an elegant new mathematical theory to understand electronic waves.
Svitlana Mayboroda is using mathematics to provide physicists with a new fundamental understanding of the behaviour of matter at nanometer scales – insights that are relevant for today's ability to control and manipulate atomic structures. Mayboroda and her collaborators have invented an elegant technique known as localisation landscape theory, which solves some long-standing problems in condensed matter physics. This mathematical framework reveals hidden structures that guide the behaviour of waves at the atomic level, explaining why waves do not propagate in complex or disordered materials. Mayboroda's ground-breaking work is leading to improvements in crucial 21st-century technologies like LED lighting, semiconductors, and solar cells.
Svitlana Mayboroda has been appointed as a professor at the Department at the beginning of August 2023. She conducts research in the field of analysis and has produced numerous ground breaking results in the areas of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory. Mayboroda has won multiple international awards for her research. At present she is the director of a major international interdisciplinary project. She is not only regarded as a leading scientist in her field, but also has extensive experience as a university lecturer.
About the Blavatnik Award
The Blavatnik National Awards honour America's most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemical Sciences. The Blavatnik National Awards Laureate receives USD 250,000 in unrestricted funds.