Dr. Hugh Chen Won Lightning Talk Award at 2025MMM-Intermag

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Four individuals in front a presentation screen. The two persons in the middle holding up their award certificate.

Zhijie (Hugh) Chen, a PhD graduate from the Georgetown Physics Department and currently a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kai Liu’s group, was selected as 2nd place winner in the Young Professional Lightning Talk Competition at the recent 16th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference  held in New Orleans.

This recognition celebrates Hugh’s exceptional ability to present complex research in under two minutes. Their award-winning presentation, titled “All Nitride Magneto-Ionics,” highlights groundbreaking work focused on developing novel materials to enable energy-efficient magnetic devices.

The joint MMM-Intermag Conference, held every three years, combines two premier international conferences on magnetism: the Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) and the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (Intermag). This event, sponsored by the AIP Publishing and the IEEE Magnetics Society, brings together leading researchers from around the world to share cutting-edge advancements in the field of magnetism.