Rouven Essig, former student of Scott Thomas who received his PhD in 2008, has received the 2015 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

The citation reads “For seminal contributions to theoretical models of dark matter with new gauge interactions, and for leadership of the APEX experiment at the Jefferson Laboratory.” Rouven is now an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University.

• Read more at the American Physical Society..