Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Jesse Thaler, associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Katharina Ribbeck, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in the Department of Biological Engineering, have been awarded the 2015-2016 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, announced today at MIT’s faculty meeting. The award was established in 1982 as a tribute to Institute Professor Emeritus Harold E. Edgerton, for his active support for younger, untenured faculty members. Each year, a faculty committee presents the award to one or more junior members of the faculty, in recognition of exceptional distinctions in teaching, research, and scholarship. Crossing barriers Ribbeck received her bachelor’s and PhD degrees in biology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and worked as a postdoc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg before continuing as a postdoc in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 2007, as a Bauer Fellow at Harvard University’s FAS Center for...