Awards – Page 2 – Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures

Miki Nakajima selected as 2023 NSF CAREER Award recipient

February 6, 2023

February 6, 2023

Miki Nakajima, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, is the recipient of a 2023 NSF CAREER award for her project, “CAREER: GLOW: Investigation on the evolution of magnetic fields of early Earth and beyond with cutting-edge research opportunities for future scientists.” READ MORE

Jessica Shang elected Member-at-Large of the APS GSCCM

January 4, 2023

January 2023

Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was elected Member-at-Large (a 2-year term) of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM). READ MORE

Eva Zurek

Eva Zurek named 2022 APS Fellow

October 19, 2022

October 19, 2022

Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership. READ MORE

HONORIFIC AWARD

Richard Kraus selected as recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award

October 11, 2022

October 11, 2022

Richard Kraus, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions. Kraus is recognized for his outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high-pressure conditions. READ MORE

HONORIFIC AWARD

Poster Award at AAPPS DPP 2022

October 10, 2022

October 10, 2022

Poster Award for "The Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Melting Curves of Warm Dense Matter" at the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics in October 2022. Authors: I. N. Erez, R. Betti, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, and P.-A. Gourdain. READ MORE

Hussein-Aluie

HONORIFIC AWARD

Hussein Aluie recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)

July 2022

Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an American Geophysical Union journal. READ MORE

Hao Yin selected for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing

June 7, 2022

Hao Yin of the University of Rochester was selected to participate in the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), to be held July 31 – August 12, 2022, at the Q-Center in St. Charles, IL. READ MORE

Jessica-Shang

Jessica Shang selected as 2022 NSF CAREER Award recipient

March 15, 2022

Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was selected as a 2022 NSF CAREER Award recipient for her project "Multiscale modeling of perivascular flow in the brain." READ MORE

Hussein-Aluie

Hussein Aluie selected to 2022 USNC/TAM Young Observer Program

June 2022

Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been selected as one of up to two Young Observers in the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) program in 2022. READ MORE

Eva Zurek

Eva Zurek elected Vice Chair of APS/DCOMP

March 19, 2022

Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, was elected Vice-Chair of the APS Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP). Her one-year term begins on March 19, 2022. READ MORE