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29 Jun 2026
2026 Bronstein Prize Awarded to Qiaoyin Pan
The Bronstein Prize for postdoctoral researchers in LQG was created following the 25th anniversary of LQG. It is named after Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, who was the first to emphasize that quantum gravity requires a deep revision of the classical concepts of spacetime.
During the Loops'26 conference in Hangzhou, Dr. Qiaoyin Pan was presented with the 2026 Bronstein Prize
[f]or her exceptional contributions to the foundations of spinfoam path integrals in loop quantum gravity, from the deep mathematics of quantum gauge groups to new insights into the renormalization flow of the theory.
Dr. Pan is a Chinese theoretical physicist, who received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, as part of her doctoral work based at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo ON, Canada) in 2022. She was awarded several early career awards and fellowships, including a postdoctoral fellowship (2022–2025) at Florida Atlantic University (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA), followed by a Shuimu Tsinghua Scholarship Award of Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 2025. Upon accepting the 2026 Bronstein Prize at the Loops '26 conference at Hangzhou, Dr. Pan delivered an outstanding plenary talk on “Spinfoam with cosmological constant”, in which she was reporting on her recent research.
Dr. Qiaoyin Pan is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University, China.
—Wolfgang Wieland on behalf of the Website Working Group reporting.