An EPiQS Pursuit

Award Recipient: 

Andrea Young

Award Date: 

Thursday, May 28, 2020

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara condensed matter physicist Andrea Young conducts his work at the boundary of theory and actuality, as he builds instrumentation to probe for signature quantum properties in advanced materials. Using his expertise in the realm of graphene systems, he and his research group also work to coax as-yet hypothetical behaviors from the two-dimensional material’s atoms that, if found, could lead to advances in realms such as quantum sensing and topological quantum computing.


Young’s experience and expertise have caught the attention of The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. And, as a result, he has been selected as one of 20 Experimental Investigators in the Moore Foundation’s Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative, which aims to support U.S. experimental scientists’ pursuit of “innovative, risky research with a potential for significant advances in the concepts and methods used to investigate quantum materials.”


“The Moore Foundation is doing something really special — giving large grants with true flexibility and freedom,” Young said. “I am flattered to have been chosen and excited to make the most of this with some risky projects I’ve been thinking about for a long time!”

CONTACT:
Sonia Fernandez
(805) 893-4765
sonia.fernandez@ucsb.edu
Shelly Leachman
(805) 893-8726
shelly.leachman@ucsb.edu

News Date: 

Thursday, May 28, 2020