2025 Graduate Student Awards in Physics & Astronomy Announced
The Department of Physics and Astronomy has announced 2024-25 graduate student award recipients. Nominations are solicited from faculty and graduate students, and those nominations are evaluated by a faculty committee.
Resham Regmi is a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award. Regmi was recognized for the growth of high-quality single crystals of altermagnetic materials, and contributing to major collaborations positioning Notre Dame at the forefront of this emerging field.
Nileema Sharma also received a Distinguished Research Award. Sharma was cited for atomic-scale visualization of putative spin-triplet superconductivity, Josephson coupling frustration, and the development of new scanning probe microscopy methods.
Coleman (Alex) Thomas is the recipient of this year's Graduate Leadership and Service Award. Thomas was recognized for being a champion of the department, and for his encouragement, and infectious and steadfast passion and dedication to improving the lives of everyone around him.
The recipient of the Graduate Research and Dissertation Award is Nathan Chalus. He was recognized for innovative studies of skyrmions by small-angle neutron scattering, and especially collective skyrmion matter behavior under the influence of a magnon current. Chalus was advised by Prof. Morten Eskildsen.
In the photo from left to right: Prof. Anna Simon-Robertson, Director of Graduate Studies; Resham Regmi, Nilema Sharma, Alex Coleman, Nathan Chalus; and Prof. Morten Eskildsen, Department Chair.
Originally published by physics.nd.edu on April 16, 2025.
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