Benjamin Lehmann wins 2025 Infinite Expansion Award

Pappalardo Fellow Benjamin Lehmann received the School of Science’s Infinite Expansion Award, one of nine postdocs and research scientists who were recognized as extraordinary members of the MIT community.

As a 2022-2025 Pappalardo Fellow, Benjamin studies dark matter and enjoys mentoring students and doing community outreach.

 “Dr. Lehmann has made noteworthy contributions to the Physics Values Committee and in mentoring more junior scientists,” wrote his nominator Tracy Slatyer. “He is also doing leading independent work in the search for light dark matter, and has come up with novel and exciting ideas to pursue the detection of primordial black holes.”