Our ex-postdoc in international news? Our very own Sebastiaan Haffert has had the honor of winning the 2025 New Horizons in Physics Prize in astronomy with Rebecca Jensen-Clem and Maaike Van-Kooten!
This year’s New Horizons in Physics Prizes honor early-career researchers across a wide range of fields. […] In astronomy, Sebastiaan Haffert, Rebecca Jensen-Clem and Maaike van Kooten have designed and enabled novel techniques for extreme adaptive optics, which are systems that compensate for the effects of Earth’s atmosphere on light reaching terrestrial telescopes. Their work promises to enable the direct detection of the smallest exoplanets.
The Breakthrough Prize recognizes scientists responsible for cutting edge work across the sciences. Some call it the “Oscars of Science.” The New Horizons Prize is awarded to to early-career researchers.
Congratulations Sebastiaan! You’ve even gotten yourself on the Steward Observatory home page.