FQxI physicists Ted Jacobson of the University of Maryland in College Park and Andrew Strominger of Harvard University have been elected as fellows of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation for 2025. Jacobson was cited for "establishing foundational connections between gravity and thermodynamics, showing that the Einstein field equations can be derived from thermodynamic considerations" and Strominger for "numerous fundamental contributions to quantum gravity, including counting the microstates of a black hole." Read more: https://qspace.fqxi.org/news
Ted Jacobson and Andrew Strominger Selected as Fellows of the International Soci