Michael Lieberman wins 2020 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award
EE Prof. Michael Lieberman has won the 2020 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear and plasma sciences and engineering. This IEEE-level Technical Field Award is the highest honor administered by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. Lieberman was cited “For groundbreaking research and sustained intellectual leadership in the physics of low-temperature plasmas and their application.” Prof. Ned Birdsall (1925-2012) won the inaugural award in 2011, making Berkeley EECS the only institution to have won two of these awards.