CMU Physicist Earns Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
By Patrick Monahan
Ben Hunt, an assistant professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University, was awarded a five-year Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award in the area of basic energy sciences.
Hunt studies the behavior of electrons in extremely cold temperatures and powerful magnetic fields where familiar physics fades away and particles are governed by a different set of laws. There, he said he hopes to discover new materials that could be building blocks for the quantum computers of the future.