Yasser Roudi Receives Norwegian Award for Young Researchers

by Hans Mühlen 8 Apr 2013 Awards
Published in the "From the Institute" section of Nordita News issue 1, 2013

On 8 March, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters announced that Nordita Corresponding Fellow Yasser Roudi is the 2013 recipient of the Society's scientific award for young researchers (IK Lykke Fund).   [Read more...]

Yasser was a Fellow at Nordita from 2008 to 2010 after which he moved to take up a faculty position at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim while also being a Corresponding Fellow at Nordita. Before moving to Stockholm, Yasser studied physics at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran where he completed his Bachelors at the age of 20. He then moved to do his PhD at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, the youngest in the institute's history. He defended his doctorate in 2005 as a 24-year-old and then became a senior research fellow at the Gatsby Unit, University College London. He has been awarded the Bogue Research Fellowship in 2008 to work at Cornell University and the Burgen Scholarship in 2012 by Academea Europea. Yasser's main research interest is understanding information processing in living organisms and machines using tools form statistical mechanics.