Marina Radulaski Named 2025 Materials Today Rising Star
Materials Today has honored Marina Radulaski, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, with a Rising Star Award for her outstanding research and promise for continued leadership in quantum materials and electronics.
The annual award celebrates early career researchers from around the world who have made a significant impact in their field. This year, the award spanned five different research areas: biomaterials, energy conversion and storage, materials data science and AI, sustainability and quantum materials and electronics. In total, just nine researchers received the 2025 Materials Today Rising Star Award.
“This award recognizes the vision I laid out for the development of scalable quantum nanophotonics with color centers,” Radulaski said. “My group at UC Davis worked hard to deliver on this vision over the past six years, and I am honored our impact has been recognized.”
Radulaski’s research explores the interactions between light and matter at the nanoscale for applications in classical and quantum information processing, including quantum networking and quantum simulation. Her goal is to engineer scalable quantum hardware that can support the creation of quantum computers and sensors.
One recent example of her work is the demonstration of an angle etching technique for fabricating quantum photonic devices at the wafer scale in silicon carbide. This advancement brings within reach the realization of hardware that is necessary to establish a quantum internet.
“In future research, I hope to increase interaction strengths of color centers and cavities and work with more complex photonic architectures that could give us an exciting playground for all photonic quantum simulation and for indistinguishable light emission at wavelengths compatible with low-loss fiber propagation in a quantum network,” Radulaski told Materials Today.
