The 2026 Landau-Spitzer Award has been awarded to:

• Clarisse Bourdelle (CEA Cadarache, France)
• Jonathan Citrin (Google DeepMind, UK)
• Gary Staebler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA)
• Ronald Waltz (General Atomics, USA)

“For advances in developing models that provide accurate and fast predictions for turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas, through more than a decade of collaboration that spans foundational quasilinear gyrokinetic theory, multi-device experimental validation, and machine learning methodology.”

The Landau-Spitzer Award on the Physics of Plasmas for “Outstanding contributions to plasma physics” is jointly sponsored by the Plasma Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society.

The Award is given to an individual or group of researchers for outstanding theoretical, experimental or technical contribution(s) in plasma physics and for advancing the collaboration and unity between Europe and the USA by joint research or research that advances knowledge which benefits the two communities in a unique way.