Liang Wu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has received the 2020 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. Also known as the Macronix Prize, the award recognizes physicists or astronomers of Chinese ethnicity working in regions outside of Asia. An experimental condensed matter physicist, Dr. Wu was chosen for his work exploring topological materials with terahertz and nonlinear spectroscopy. He joined the Penn faculty in 2018.