The Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award recognizes outstanding research contributions from early and mid-career faculty members. It may be awarded based on a faculty member’s overall research program or based on a single, highly influential paper.
Eduardo Martin-Martinez’s research focuses on relativistic quantum information. He previously won the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Physics and the Ontario Early Researcher Award. He is cross-appointed with the Department of Physics, an associate faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing, an affiliate faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a faculty member with the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for Astrophysics.
Sophie Spirkl’s research focuses on geometric and structural graph theory. She previously won the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship from Princeton University. Spirkl and a team of co-investigators have recently made a significant breakthrough on the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture, with promising indications of further progress coming.