Congratulation to our Pitt PACC PhD alum Zhen Liu! 

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Zhen Liu is one of only 126 early-career researchers who will receive a prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship. Awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowships honor researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.

Liu came to the University of Minnesota in December 2020. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland and a research associate at Fermilab, the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Liu received his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University, master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. 

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/20/2024)