The 2025 Willis E. Lamb Award
Awarded January 8, 2025, at the 54th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics.
Luiz Davidovich, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
For seminal discoveries in Quantum Information Science.
Luiz Davidovich is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He got his PhD at the University of Rochester, and has since worked on quantum optics and quantum information, with emphasis on open systems. He was awarded the Brazilian Grand-Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2000, and he was recipient, in 2010, of the most important prize for science in Brazil, the Admiral Alvaro Alberto prize, awarded by the Brazilian National Research Council. In 2001, he got the Physics Prize of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is Foreign Member of the USA National Academy of Science, of the European Academy of Sciences, and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society. He became Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study of Texas A&M in 2019, and was Part-time Research Professor of the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering of Texas A&M from 2021 to 2024. He was member of the Executive Board of the International Council of Science (ICSU) in the period 2011-2014, President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2022, and Secretary-General of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) from 2019 to 2022.