MDPI Webinar | The Science Behind the Prize: 2025 Nobel Physics Roundtable
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Amir-Abbas Haghighirad
Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies (IQMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany;
Dr. Haghighirad is a leading experimental physicist specializing in quantum materials. He currently works at the Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, where he leads research in crystal growth and characterization of novel quantum materials . He earned his MSc at the University of Groningen, working under Prof. T.T.M. Palstra, and completed his PhD at Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main) in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. W. Assmus. In 2012, he received a prestigious Royal Society Newton Research Fellowship, subsequently serving until 2017 as a Senior Research Assistant at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford. Since 2017, he has been leading material development, crystal growth, and characterization at KIT’s Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies. Dr. Haghighirad’s expertise lies in quantum materials and condensed matter physics. He has contributed to hundreds of publications that are widely cited in top-tier journals. According to his Google Scholar profile, he has over 23,000 citations, and an h-index of about 43. On the funding front, he is a principal investigator in current DFG-funded projects—such as "Elastic tuning of competing orders in quantum materials (CRC/Transregio)"—and has previously led projects on the high-pressure synthesis, crystal growth, and thermodynamic properties of iron-pnictide superconductors in frame of a priority program. Dr. Haghighirad is also a co-inventor on patents, including a semiconductor device comprising halopalladate, illustrating his involvement in translating research into technological innovation. In June 2021, Dr. Haghighirad was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Quantum Materials” Section of the journal Condensed Matter (ISSN 2410-3896) published by MDPI.
Prof. Dr. Máté Csanád
Department of Atomic Physics, Faculty of Science, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary;
Máté Csanád studied at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), and Stony Brook University (NY, USA). Interrupted by several semesters spent at CERN and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, he works at the Eötvös University since his PhD. He obtained his DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2021, and is a professor since then, and currently the director of the Environmental Science Center at ELTE. His interests focus on high energy heavy ion physics, hyrodynamic modeling of the quark gluon plasma, quantumstatistical correlations and the femtometer spacetime structure of the quark matter. He leads the Hungarian participation in experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and is member of CERN experiments. His main research interests include the understanding of spatiotemporal structures on the femtometer scale via femtoscopy, as well as analytical solutions of relativistic hydrodynamic to understand the time evolution of the matter created in collider experiments.
Prof. Dr. Mariusz P. Dąbrowski
Szczecin Cosmology Group, Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Poland;
Mariusz Przemysław Dąbrowski, a Polish physicist, specializes in cosmology, gravitation, particle and nuclear physics, nuclear engineering. He is employed at the Institute of Physics of the University of Szczecin, Poland, where he has created and is now leading an international research team called “Szczecin Cosmology Group”. He is also a professor at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Otwock-Świerk n., Warsaw, Poland. He is an author of more than 100 papers in scientific journals cited more than 2,400 times and with a Hirsch index of h=26. He has been as supervisor of 12 Ph.D. theses. In 2023, he was mentioned as the “TOP 2% scientist in the world” by Stanford University ranking and Elsevier. During his career, he managed many research grants, including the prestigious project of the National Science Center Maestro-3 entitled "New consequences of the variability of fundamental constants in physics and cosmology" (2013-2018). He cooperated with the Templeton Laureate and an honorary doctor of the University of Szczecin, prof. John D. Barrow, and with rev. prof. Michael Heller of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Kraków. He completed shorter or longer research visits to such institutions as Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland (1986-88), University of Sussex, UK (1993-94, 1996, 1997-98), University of Freiburg, Germany (1996), Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Beijing (2009), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan (2010), Dartmouth College, USA (2013), BEYOND Center, Arizona State University, USA (2014), Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada (2017, 2018), and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2018). He has been working on topological defect cosmologies, pre-big-bang, superstring, brane and M-theory cosmologies, inhomogeneous cosmologies, cyclic cosmologies, and phantom cosmologies. Recently, he has been working on generalized and extended uncertainty principles and nonextensive entropies as applied to black holes and cosmological horizons.
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MDPI warmly invites you to participate in our upcoming forum titled “The Science Behind the Prize: 2025 Nobel Physics Roundtable”. It is a celebration of the groundbreaking research shaping the future of Physics.
Coinciding with the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, this forum underscores the importance of recognizing outstanding achievements that push the boundaries of human knowledge and understanding. It is a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas on the advancements driving scientific progress and to inspire the next generation of gifted physicists.
General topics of discussion for this event will include
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Breakthrough research shaping the future of physics;
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Reflecting on past Nobel Prize-winning work and its legacy;
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The key trends driving innovation in physics today;
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Exploring the societal and scientific contributions of physics research.
Date: 07 October, 2025
Time: 2:30PM CEST | 8:30AM EDT | 8:30PM CST (Asia)
Webinar ID: 834 1426 1080
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
The webinar was hosted via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below. In order to learn about future webinars, you can sign up to our newsletter by clicking “Subscribe” at the top of the page.