EPFL researchers among 2025 Breakthrough Prize laureates
Members of the LHCb collaboration. Credit: Piotr Traczyk (CERN)
One hundred current and former members of EPFL’s High Energy Physics Laboratory (LPHE) are celebrated as part of the LHCb collaboration, which shares this year’s prestigious Breakthrough Prize with the ATLAS, CMS, and ALICE experiments at CERN.
Created in 2012 by tech entrepreneurs and philanthropists, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is the most lucrative award in the field, honouring profound contributions to the understanding of the Universe. Each prize is awarded by a committee of previous laureates and includes a $3 million award, far surpassing the Nobel Prize in monetary terms.
In 2025, the prize was awarded jointly to the four Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collaborations at CERN—ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb—for their achievements using data from LHC Run-2. The citation highlights precision measurements of the Higgs boson, exploration of matter-antimatter asymmetry, discovery of new hadrons, and probing extreme states of matter.
Among the 2025 laureates of the Breakthrough Prize are 100 current and former EPFL members of the High Energy Physics Laboratory (LPHE), reflecting contributions from 2015 to 2024. Currently, 30 LPHE researchers actively participate in ongoing experiments at LHC, reflecting EPFL's longstanding commitment to pushing the frontiers of particle physics.
LPHE researchers at EPFL continue to play pivotal roles in advancing our understanding of fundamental physics. Their participation underscores the collaborative spirit essential to pioneering scientific discovery, further highlighted by this award.
For additional insights, explore the official Breakthrough Prize announcement and CERN’s press release. EPFL proudly recognizes all the contributors whose dedication has been integral to this exceptional achievement.
Full list of EPFL-affiliated laureates (2014–2024):
Yasmine Amhis
Liupan An
Guido Andreassi
Konstantin Androsov
Irene Bachiller Perea
Marie Bachmayer
Vladislav Balagura
Colin Barschel
Vincenzo Battista
Aurelio Bay
Violaine Bellee
Marc-Olivier Bettler
Frederic Blanc
Sonia Amina Bouchiba
Alexandre Brea Rodriguez
Sara Celani
Serhii Cholak
Greig Cowan
Esteban Curras Rivera
Rita Ataide Da Silva
Paul De Bryas Dexmiers D`archiac
Stefano De Capua
Michel De Cian
Maria Vieites Diaz
Mirco Dorigo
Anh Duc Nguyen
Laurent Dufour
Surapat Ek-In
Maria Faria
Conor Fitzpatrick
Lucia Castillo Garcia
Luis Miguel Garcia Martin
Sebastiana Giani
Olivier Goran Girard
Elena Graverini
Abdul-Kerim Guseinov
Guido Haefeli
Xiaoxue Han
Timothy Head
Louis Henry
Adlene Hicheur
Donal Hill
Plamen Hristov Hopchev
Dimitrios Kaminaris
Anni Kauniskangas
Chitsanu Khurewathanakul
Veronica Soelund Kirsebom
Ilya Komarov
Axel Kevin Kuonen
Vitalii Lisovskyi
Lino Ferreira Lopes
Vladimir Macko
Radoslav Marchevski
Matthieu Marinangeli
Pietro Marino
Anna Mascellani
Maurizio Martinelli
Brice Maurin
Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt
Andrea Merli
Bastien Muster
Tatsuya Nakada
Tara Nanut
Albert Puig Navarro
Thi Dung Nguyen
Chung Nguyen-Mau
Elisabeth Maria Niel
Preema Rennee Pais
Luca Pescatore
Guillaume Pietrzyk
Cedric Potterat
Jessica Prisciandaro
Renato Quagliani
Federico Redi
Roberto Ribatti
Ana Barbara Rodrigues
Federico Ronchetti
Olivier Schneider
Maxime Schubiger
Sebastian Schulte
Lesya Shchutska
Ismet Siral
Yunxuan Song
Fatima Soomro
Pavol Stefko
Jan Steggemann
Maria Elena Stramaglia
Minh Tam Tran
Mark Tobin
Stephane Tourneur
Karim Trabelsi
Carina Trippl
Alison Tully
Maarten Van Dijk
Raphael Van Laak
Giovanni Veneziano
Aravindhan Venkateswaran
Zhirui Xu
Ettore Zaffaroni
Gianluca Zunica