Georges Lemaître 2025 Chair

Since its creation in 2016, the Georges Lemaître Chair has been awarded every year by the IRMP institute of UCLouvain to a world-leading personality in physics in the fields of fundamental interactions and cosmology. In 2023 the the recipient of the Georges Lemaitre Chair is Jesse Thaler.

Jesse Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist who fuses techniques from quantum field theory and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics. His current research is focused on maximizing the discovery potential of the Large Hadron Collider through new theoretical frameworks and novel data analysis techniques. Prof. Thaler joined the MIT Physics Department in 2010, and he is currently a Professor in the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – a Leinweber Institute. In 2020, he became the inaugural Director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions.