Andrea J. Liu receives 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize
SFI External Professor Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania) is the recipient of the APS 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, the American Physical Society announced on October 15. Liu is a statistical physicist who studies condensed-matter physics and biophysics. This award recognizes her “broad contributions to the statistical mechanics of disordered systems and biological matter, including the theory of jamming” — the theory of rigidity in a large class of disordered systems.