Timothy Kovachy, professor of physics and astronomy in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 2020 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, along with 19 other of the nation’s most innovative scientists and engineers.
This fellowship includes a grant (with no restrictions) of $875,000 over five years to pursue innovative and experimental research.
Kovachy’s research group is working with atom interferometers which offer the possibility to probe quantum mechanics in an unexplored regime.
“The Packard Fellowship will provide me with the funding to pursue some of my most ambitious ideas,” said Professor Timothy Kovachy.
“I appreciate that the Packard Foundation encourages high-risk, high-reward research that aims to make dramatic advances beyond the current state-of-the-art.”
Professor Timothy Kovachy
Read more about Kovachy’s fellowship in the Northwestern Now article: “Physicist receives prestigious Packard Fellowship.”