2025

Aninda Sinha

Indian Institute of Science, India
University of Calgary, Canada

Areas: Cosmology, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory

Aninda Sinha is a theoretical high-energy physicist. His research focuses on quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and mathematical physics.

Sinha’s research is both numerical and analytical in nature and makes heavy use of the capabilities of Mathematica. He has used Mathematica as a “theoretical experimentalist” in many of his 80 publications. His research on the bootstrap makes heavy use of the symbolic manipulation capabilities as well as the high-precision numerical capabilities of Mathematica. Recently, he found an infinite number of new formulas for pi in a paper that was published in Physical Review Letters, which was selected by Scientific American as one of the seven coolest mathematical discoveries of 2024. Mathematica provided a versatile platform to verify these results and to gain fresh, new perspectives on string theory.

2025

Thomas Hahn

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

Areas: Computational Physics, Package Development, Physics, Quantum Field Theory

Thomas Hahn is a department leader at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He is also on the executive committee for the Fachgruppe Computeralgebra (Subject Group in Computer Algebra). He is the author of numerous packages for performing calculations in quantum field theory, including FeynArts, one of the most highly cited Mathematica packages to date. He has applied his expertise to the study of high-energy computational physics and is personally the author of over one hundred scholarly works in this field.

2024

Sebastian Mizera

Princeton University

Areas: Education, Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical Physics

Sebastian Mizera is a theoretical physicist studying quantum field theory and gravitational physics. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and an affiliate at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and the Institute for Advanced Study. His research aims to understand the nature of interactions between fundamental objects, ranging from elementary particles to black holes. He is particularly interested in how physical principles, such as causality, locality and unitarity, are encoded in the analytic structure of asymptotic observables in quantum field theory.

Wolfram Language is the bedrock of symbolic computations in the field of theoretical high-energy physics. Mizera employs it in his daily research on quantum field theory, but also in higher education. Recently, he incorporated Wolfram Language in the graduate course Physics of the Analytic S-Matrix given at the Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. The software was used to illustrate complex concepts behind scattering theory on hands-on examples.