May 7, 2015

PhD student Joseph Lukens awarded Wigner Fellowship

PhD Student Joseph Lukens
PhD Student Joseph Lukens
The three-year position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is its most distinguished fellowship, designed to provide new scientific talent the opportunity to pursue technical excellence while making significant contributions to ORNL's national missions.

Fourth-year graduate student Joseph M. Lukens has been awarded the Wigner Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Named after Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel laureate in physics and the first director of research and development at Oak Ridge, the three-year position is ORNL's most distinguished fellowship, designed to provide new scientific talent the opportunity to pursue technical excellence while making significant contributions to ORNL's national missions. Lukens is advised by Professor Andrew M. Weiner and will join the Quantum Information Science group at ORNL after graduation.