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INRS Professor Fabio Boschini has just received a prestigious 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in physics for his groundbreaking research on quantum materials. Crédit : INRS (CNW Group/Institut National de la recherche scientifique (INRS))

"I am truly honoured to be the first Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow at INRS," said Professor Fabio Boschini, a researcher specializing in quantum materials at INRS and a 2025 Alfred P. Sloan award recipient. "The Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship is an exciting recognition of my team's hard work. It pushes us to aim even higher, dream even bigger, and step out of our comfort zone to dive into the depths of exploratory research and the unknown."

The designation of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) by the United Nations highlights the growing importance of quantum research, exemplified by the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Physics awarded to Professor Boschini for his groundbreaking work on quantum materials at INRS.

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