Today, President Obama announced that one of our users, Asst. Prof. Jacob Jones (University of Florida, Gainesville), has been awarded a highly prestigious Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in the USA.
Jacob is a heavy user of our WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer, in collaboration with Andrew Studer (Bragg Institute) and Prof. Mark Hoffmann (UNSW-Materials Science), for time-resolved studies of ferroelectric materials in applied electric fields.
Another awardee, Dr. Craig Brown (NIST Center for Neutron Research) will be coming to the Institute on sabbatical for 3 months in 2010, as part of a 3-person team seconded from NIST during their long shutdown.
The Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Published: 09/07/2009