Simon Caron-Huot, Professor and Canada Research Chair in High-Energy Physics, has been awarded a 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship.鈥疶he prestigious fellowship is awarded by the Killam Trusts. Eight Fellowships were awarded across the country.聽聽
The Dorothy Killam Fellowship provides researchers with up to two years of relief from teaching and administrative duties to focus on transformative research that has potential to positively improve Canadian lives.聽聽
Caron-Huot is an expert in quantum field theory, an area of research that unites many subfields of modern physics.聽 His work illuminates the mathematical laws which the Universe follows at the shortest of distances. He pioneered analytic techniques to describe strongly interacting systems using their internal consistency, established new symmetries of scattering amplitudes, and has developed an inversion formula that characterizes the fluctuations of diverse systems including models of black holes and quantum gravity.聽聽聽
He plans to extend these methods to more realistic models which will enable new calculations of the subatomic forces holding together the constituents of protons and neutrons. The precision of Caron-Huot鈥檚 mathematical tools sheds light on the fundamental forces of nature, and his work has the potential to expand knowledge of particle physics and of the internal structure of matter observed in collider experiments.鈥�
Among his many research awards are the Herzberg Medal from the Canadian Association of Physicists (2021), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2020), and the New Horizon Breakthrough Prize in Physics (2020).鈥�
Congratulations to Professor Caron-Huot!聽