Andrzej J. Buras has been awarded the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics by the American Physical Society (APS), which recognizes outstanding achievement in particle theory.
He earned the prize “for exceptional contributions to quark-flavor physics, in particular, developing and carrying out calculations of higher-order QCD effects to electroweak transitions, as well as for drawing phenomenological connections between kaons, D mesons, and B mesons.”
Buras is a professor emeritus of Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics at TUM and was Carl von Linde Senior Fellow at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study from 2008-2011.