This highly competitive fellowship is designed to provide early career scientists and engineers with exceptional promise the opportunity to pursue their own research projects and contribute to the knowledge base required for a healthy and innovative national culture. Previous physicists to hold the fellowship include Nobel Prize winners Peter Higgs and Paul Dirac.
Dr Rubino was selected as one of this year’s eight recipients of the three-year fellowship from across physical and biological sciences, mathematics, applied sciences and engineering. Dr Rubino’s award recognises her pioneering contributions in the field of quantum foundations, where she has led both theoretical and experimental research studies spanning quantum optics, quantum information theory, and quantum thermodynamics and, more recently, integrated photonics.