The FERMI LAT Collaboration Recognizes its People
The Fermi-LAT Recognition Awards, inaugurated in 2025, highlight the essential yet often unseen contributions that underpin the success of our mission. Each year, LAT colleagues nominate outstanding scientific, technical, and service efforts by fellow Collaboration members and students. By honoring these hidden contributions, the awards not only showcase excellence but also reaffirm the collaborative spirit that sustains and advances the Fermi-LAT Collaboration.
Recognition Awards:
Long-Standing Exemplary Support Recognition Award
This award recognizes the long-standing dedication and exceptional contributions by members of the LAT Collaboration and the broader Fermi scientific community.
Early-Career Excellence in Collaboration Publication Award
This award honors a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher who has taken a leading role in a recent Category I (Collaboration) publication.
Early-Career Outstanding Contribution Award
This award recognizes an outstanding early-career scientist (within 10 years of earning their Ph.D.) whose contributions have had a significant impact on the activities and science of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration.
2026 Awardees
Early-Career CAT-I Papers Leadership Award
Alba Rico-Rodríguez: For outstanding leadership in the end-to-end development of the 4FHL Catalog.
Early-Career Outstanding Contribution Award
Niccolò Di Lalla: For major contributions to the GW pipeline and fermipy, and outstanding leadership of the Gamma-Ray Burst Science Group.
Long-Standing Exemplary Support Recognition Award
Seth Digel: For foundational contributions to Fermi-LAT Galactic diffuse emission studies and exceptional service through the review of more than 600 collaboration publications.
Isabelle Grenier: For seminal contributions to Fermi-LAT science, including the discovery of dark gas and key advances in Galactic diffuse emission studies.
Don Horner: For always being at the frontline of maintaining Fermi LAT data pipeline operations.
Michael Kuss: For always being at the frontline of maintaining Fermi LAT data pipeline operations.
Giovanna Senatore: For being a pillar of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration.
David J. Thompson: For foundational contributions to gamma-ray pulsar science and exceptional service to Fermi-LAT through the review of close to 1,000 collaboration publications.
2025 Awardees
Long-Standing Exemplary Support Recognition Award
Jean Ballet: For leading the development and curation of the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray source catalogs.
Toby Burnett: For boundless inventiveness and invaluable contributions to every stage of the Fermi-LAT mission, from event simulation to source finding for the LAT catalogs.
Philippe Bruel: For continuous effort and support in improving Fermi-LAT data reduction and analysis techniques.
Nicola Omodei: For leading the processing and curation of LAT Low-Energy data and developing widely used tools for LAT transient analyses.
