SCES 2026 Awards
SCES2026 Prize Recipients
The Bernard Coqblin Prize
Ismardo J. Bonalde
Center for Physics, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Venezuela
“For his enduring contributions to the physics of strongly correlated electron systems, particularly in unconventional superconductivity in Venezuela.”
Bryan R. Coles Prize
The following two recipients are ex aequo.
Pyeongjae Park
Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
“For his measurements to show a new type of chiral order 2D topological magnet in Co1/3TaS2 with a tetrahedral triple-Q magnetic structure, and to show a large spontaneous Hall conductivity emerging in this metallic triangular antiferromagnet.”
Allan Scheie
Department of Physics, Grove City College, USA
“For his central role in establishing neutron scattering as a quantitative validation tool for quantum computing and quantum simulation in the physics of correlated materials.”
Nevill F. Mott Prize
Andreas Gleis
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, USA
“For his use of cellular dynamical mean-field theory, with the numerical renormalization group as a cluster impurity solver for attacking SCES problems.”
Prize Committee
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Andrea Bianchi ( Université de Montréal, Canada, Chair of the Committee)
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Alix McCollam (University College Cork, Ireland)
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Anne de Visser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Joe Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
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Liliana Arrachea (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
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Masao Ogata (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Meigan Aronson (University British Columbia, Canada)
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Peter Riseborough (Temple University, USA)
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Sebastien Burdin (University of Bordeaux, France)
Call for nominations
We are soliciting nominations for recipients of the SCES 2026 Prizes for outstanding contributions to the study of strongly correlated electron systems. Following the tradition established at SCES 2013 in Tokyo, three prizes, of which two are early-career prizes, will be awarded during SCES 2026.
It will be awarded to a person who has made outstanding contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems, and who is active in research for no more than 8 years after the PhD.
It will be awarded to a person who has made outstanding contributions to the experimental study or discovery of strongly correlated electron materials and phenomena, and who is active in research for no more than 8 years after the PhD.
It will be awarded to a person who has made significant contributions to the physics of strongly correlated electron systems achieved in a country where the field of SCES is not well established, or who has made significant contributions to establish vigorous activity of SCES research in such a country.
Application
- Nominations, no more than two pages in length, should explain the importance of the work upon which the nomination is based and state explicitly the prize for which the candidate is being nominated.
- Please limit the number of nominations per candidate to three.
- For the early career prizes, the date of the candidate’s PhD should be given.
- The nomination, together with supporting materials, for example, a one-page CV of the candidate and one or two papers related to the nomination, should be emailed to the Secretariat of SCES 2026 (
sces2026@pcojapan.jp) by
February 15 March 22, 2026, with the subject "Prize Nominations for SCES 2026".
- All nominations will be treated confidentially.
Previous SCES Prize Winners
