Nine University of Notre Dame faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards in 2020. Since 2014, Notre Dame faculty have earned 49 of these .
鈥淭he University is very pleased that so many of our newly hired faculty have earned these prestigious early career awards,鈥� said , vice president for and professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at Notre Dame. 鈥淭his success reflects both the talent our departments, schools and colleges are able to recruit,聽as well as the research resources they have available to support their creative ideas.鈥澛�
The CAREER award recipients, who come from the Colleges of , 听补苍诲 , as well as the , are as follows:
- , assistant professor in the , received the award for 鈥淯ncertainty quantification and optimization with hybrid models for molecular-to-systems engineering.鈥�
- , associate professor of in the and concurrent assistant professor of and in the Keough 91视频, received the award for 鈥淧ockets of effectiveness and the diffusion of organizational capacity.鈥�
- , assistant professor in the , received the award for 鈥淗yperbolicity properties of hypersurfaces.鈥�
- , the William P. and Hazel B. White Assistant Professor of and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging Lab, received the award for 鈥淭argeted memory reactivation with transcranial magnetic stimulation.鈥�
- , associate professor in the , received the award for 鈥淟earning at the edge: An extreme value theory for visual recognition.鈥�
- , the Huisking Foundation, Inc. Assistant Professor of , received the award for 鈥淏ayesian inference networks for model ensembles.鈥�
- , assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received the award for 鈥淒issipative non-equilibrium supramolecular hydrogels using fuels.鈥�
- , assistant professor in the , received the award for 鈥淭ask-level coordination of motor and machine for fluent lower-limb prostheses.鈥�
- , assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, received the award for 鈥淭he next generation intracellular delivery device for immunotherapy: The integration between ultrasonic transducer and microfluidic chip.鈥�
Additionally, , associate professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, received his award while at Missouri University of Science and Technology for 鈥淟arge-scale manufacturing of metasurfaces using microsphere photolithography." Kinzel joined the University in 2019.
The CAREER award program,聽established by the NSF in 1995, recognizes and supports outstanding early career faculty who exhibit a commitment to stimulating research while also providing educational opportunities for students. To learn about the University鈥檚 previous CAREER awardees, visit .
Contact: Brandi R. Wampler,聽brandiwampler@nd.edu, 574.631.8183
Originally published by at on August 06, 2020.