Dr Bruno Bertini was named as a Condensed Matter recipient at the 2025 Frontiers of Science Awards for a groundbreaking physics paper published in 2016
Dr Bruno Bertini receiving award at 2025 Frontiers of Science Awards
Dr Bruno Bertini, Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Birmingham's School of Physics and Astronomy, was named as one of the Condensed Matter recipients at the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award for his work titled Transport in Out-of-Equilibrium XXZ Chains: Exact Profiles of Charges and Currents.
The paper, which was published in Physical Review Letters in 2016 with co-authors Dr Mario Collura (SISSA and INFN), Dr Jacopo De Nardis (CY Cergy Paris University) and Dr Maurizio Fagotti (CNRS), centred around the development of a hydrodynamic theory providing an efficient description for the large-scale dynamics of integrable models. To paper described the idea of changing variables from the usual hydrodynamic quantities, such as energy and momentum density, to a set of more convenient ones , called quasiparticles, that exist in integrable models. This achievement has since led to many theoretical developments in integrability, fluid theory, statistical mechanics, and, concurrently, has found direct application in cold atom experiments.
The Frontiers of Science Awards launched in 2023, hosted by the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS), and sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Application (BIMSA). A Frontiers of Science award is typically given to a recent paper, recognised as a major breakthrough in Mathematics, Physics, and Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences. Each year, researchers worldwide are invited to nominate candidates for the award. A panel of renowned experts is asked to review and select a shortlist of award candidates in each research area. A Global Committee is appointed by the ICBS to recommend winners from a pool of shortlisted candidates from different research areas.
In 2025, ICBS conferred 118 awards, 75 in Mathematics, 16 in Physics, and 27 in Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences.
It is very fulfilling to see our work being recognised by a panel of world leading experts such as those consulted by ICBS. This award came entirely unexpected — almost nine years after our paper was published — in a sense this made it even more gratifying.
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Staff profile for Dr Bruno Bertini, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
