Congrats to our colleague Gwendal Fève for winning the Mergier-Bourdeix Award, by the Fondation of French Academy of Sciences !
PI in the Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS), and Professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, Gwendal studies the quantum transport of electric current in very pure two-dimensional conductors at very low temperatures. Strong interactions between electrons can give rise to new quasiparticles called anyons. In particular, Gwendal Fève has highlighted the exotic properties of anyons which, unlike fermions and bosons, retain a robust memory of exchanges between particles that could be exploited for quantum information processing.
This well-deserved distinction highlights his remarkable career in the service of research and information processing.
