Edward Teller Medal
This medal is given in recognition of pioneering research and leadership in the use of high intensity drivers (e.g. lasers, ion-particle beams, pulsed power) to produce unique high-density matter for scientific research and to conduct investigations of inertial fusion.
The 2025 awardees of the Edward Teller Medal are:
Hye-Sook Park (LLNL, USA) for her pioneering high-energy density experimental work in high pressure materials science, inertial confinement fusion, and astrophysical collisionless shock generation, the resulting particle acceleration, and magnetic field generation
Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC, USA) for his visionary leadership in advancing critical capabilities enabling ignition at the National Ignition Facility, his pioneering contributions to fundamental scientific understanding, and his transformative impact on mentoring and training the next generation of leaders in High Energy Density Science and Inertial Confinement Fusion
Edouard Fabre Prize
The prize is rewarding active researchers at mid-career (within 15 years of the doctoral degree) working on ICF-related topics.
The 2025 awardees are:
Maria Gatu Johnson (MIT, USA) for her leadership and key contributions in the development of nuclear diagnostics enhancing our understanding of ignition on NIF, as well as Basic science Nucleosynthetis experiments
Robbie Scott (STFC/CLF, UK) for his efforts optimizing direct drive IFE schemes, including the discovery of the Shock Augmented Ignition concept
Chiyoe Yamanaka Award
The Yamanaka award is given to early-career students/scientists and is sponsored by IFE Forum, Japan.
The 2025 awardees are:
Ryunosuke Takizawa (ILE, Osaka U., Japan) for pioneering research toward high-efficiency fast ignition fusion, addressing laser-to-electron coupling, REB divergence, and fuel uniformity to enable carbon-free, dispatchable energy in an AI-driven world
Zhiyu Lei (Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China) for groundbreaking development of forward Raman amplification for petawatt infrared pulses and novel plasma-grating-based ultrafast neutron sources, advancing compact high-intensity laser and nuclear imaging technologies