Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Universe 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg.

Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg is a Professor of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg’s research interests lie at the interface between gravitational physics, cosmology, particle physics, and computational astrophysics ranging from purely theoretical topics to more observational subjects. Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg received her PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 102 publications in total, among which 81 are published in peer-reviewed international journals, 10 pre-prints are currently under review, 8 are major review articles, 2 are contributions to proceedings of conferences, and one monograph has been published by Springer. Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg’s publications have attracted 5200 citations with a Hirsch index = 36, where 16 of them are top-cited and 12 of them have more than 50 citations. She is clearly a rising star in the field of physics and the universe. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg for her outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Lavinia Heisenberg will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2021 in Universe after peer-review, and a certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Editor-in-Chief, Universe, on behalf of Universe 2020 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee