Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

June 10, 2026

Jarillo-Herrero is co-recipient of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for foundational work that established the field of twistronics.” His co-recipients are professors Eva Y. Andrei at Rutgers University and Allan MacDonald from the University of Texas at Austin.

These three physicists are being honored for the theoretical foundation and experimental validation of a new field of “twistronics,” where superconductivity, magnetism, and other properties can be obtained by rotating two-dimensional materials such as graphene to a “magic angle.”

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