David Neto receives American Physical Society’s 2026 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics

David Neto, postdoctoral scholar at FRIB, has received the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2026 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics. The annual award recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in nuclear physics.

Neto earned the award “for outstanding contributions to active-target programs and nuclear-fusion studies in experimental nuclear astrophysics, through innovative detector research and data analysis as well as advanced machine-learning applications.”

The Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics was endowed in 1985 by members and friends of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and has been presented annually since 1999.

Michigan State University operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), with financial support from and furthering the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.