CCA Research Fellow Elena Pinetti Awarded Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics to Flatiron Research Fellow Elena Pinetti.
The award is given annually to an early-career physicist who has performed outstanding research in particle physics within seven years of earning their Ph.D. Recipients receive $3,000, a certificate and travel to an APS meeting to deliver an invited lecture.
This year’s prize recognizes Pinetti’s “original ideas and innovative research in the study of particle dark matter, compact astrophysical objects, high-energy astrophysical sources, and cosmic radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum.”
Pinetti joined the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics in 2024. Her research focuses on multi-messenger searches for dark matter in novel environments, including intercluster filaments and cosmic voids. She is also an Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute. Before joining the CCA, Pinetti was a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab and earned her Ph.D. in 2021 through a joint program between the University of Turin in Italy and the Sorbonne University in France.
