Reza Ebadi Receives 2025 Biruni Award

Reza Ebadi, a University of Maryland Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics, has been awarded the 2025 Biruni Graduate Student Research Award for his contributions to fundamental physics. The Biruni Award was established in 2011 by the Iranian-American Physicists (IRAP) Network Group to promote and recognize outstanding research by a physics graduate student of Iranian heritage studying in a United States institute of higher education.

Ebadi joined UMD in 2019 and earned his MS in Physics in 2023. He received a BS in Physics in 2019 from Sharif University of Technology. He is a member of the UMD Quantum Technology Center, under the supervision of Professor Ronald Walsworth.

His research focuses on the intersection of particle physics, quantum physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Specifically, his work includes advancing precision methods for dark matter detection, pioneering approaches to measuring galactic acceleration using pulsars and double white dwarf binaries as astrophysical clocks, and exploring the phenomenology of early universe cosmology. He has been recognized for his research on novel theoretical and experimental precision measurement methods for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model.

The Biruni Award is named after Abu-Rayhan Biruni, an Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. Born in 973, Biruni is known for his breadth of knowledge and influential studies in mathematics, astronomy, physics, natural sciences and philosophy.

Published March 24, 2025