2025 EPS High Energy Particle Physics Prizes
The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics in an experimental, theoretical or technological area, will be awarded to one or more persons or to collaboration(s).
The 2025 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize is awarded to Jürg Gasser, Heinrich Leutwyler and Martin Lüscher for ground-breaking contributions to new theoretical methods that have advanced our understanding of strong interactions in their non-perturbative regime. In particular, to Gasser and Leutwyler for the formulation of low-energy effective field theory, which opened the way to accurate predictions in hadron physics and in the standard model; to Lüscher for leading developments on the formulation of QCD on the lattice, which enabled the rigorous calculation of non-perturbative contributions to physical observables from first principles.
The Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology in the last fifteen years, in an experimental, theoretical or technological area, will be awarded to one or more individuals or to one or more collaborations.
The 2025 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize is awarded to the Fermi-LAT and Fermi-GBM collaborations for revolutionizing the field of gamma-ray astronomy, providing the detection and catalogs of thousands of new gamma-ray sources including pulsars, the first detection of an electromagnetic counterpart to a neutrino IceCube event, the identification of more than two thousand gamma ray bursts, and the first detection of the electromagnetic counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW170817 from the merger of two neutron stars.
The Gribov Medal, for outstanding work by an early career researcher (maximum of 8 years - excluding career interruptions - of research experience following the PhD) in Theoretical Particle Physics and/or Field Theory.
The 2025 Gribov Medal is awarded to Lorenz Eberhardt for his groundbreaking contributions to modern string theory, notably for the proof of the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence in a tractable three-dimensional setting, for offering novel insights into the solution of three-dimensional gravity, and for achieving significant progress in the computation of string amplitudes.
The Young Experimental Physicist Prize, for outstanding work by one or more early career experimental physicist (maximum of 8 years - excluding career interruptions - of research experience following the PhD) in the field of Particle Physics and/or Particle Astrophysics.
The 2025 Young Experimental Physicist Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the EPS is awarded to:
Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad for influential and innovative ideas, as well as high-impact contributions to the integration of modern machine learning technologies into particle physics, particularly in the hardware event-filtering systems of particle detectors, and for her leadership in pioneering novel techniques for anomaly detection and searches for new physics.
Laura Zani for outstanding work on searches for physics beyond the standard model at B-Factories, in particular dark matter portals and lepton-flavor-violating decays of the tau lepton, and for remarkable contributions to the construction, commissioning and operation of the Belle II experiment.
The Outreach Prize, for outstanding achievement in outreach, including education and the promotion of diversity, in connection with High Energy Physics and/or Particle Astrophysics.
The 2025 Outreach Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the EPS is awarded to the Beamline for Schools Project for its original, innovative and successful outreach program of global competitions for high-school teams, offering the winning teams the unique opportunity to carry out their proposed experiments at major particle physics accelerator laboratories such as CERN or DESY.