The DOE Office of Science the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program has awarded 300,000 node-hours (dollar equivalent $3,000,0000) to collaborative project led by USF Physics Professor Ivan Oleynik.
The project is titled “Predictive Simulations of Phase Transitions in Dynamically Compressed Materials”. It aims to perform quantum-accurate multi-million atom simulations with machine-learning interatomic potentials to uncover fundamental physics of phase transitions in materials subjected terapascal pressures (P) and temperatures (T) up 100,000 K in High Energy Density (HED) regime. The team institutions include USF, the Royal Institute of Technology (Prof. Anatoly Belonoshko) and Sandia National Laboratories (Drs. Stan Moore, Aidan Thompson, and Mitchell Wood). Prof. Belonoshko and Dr. Thompson are also affiliated faculty at our Physics Department.
Three physicists and a chemist at USF are the recipients of a 3-year $449K NSF research
grant for computational and experimental investigation of Ferroelectric materials.
The PI of the grant is Dr. Inna Ponomareva, and the co-PIs are Drs. Sergey Lisenkov and Sarath Witanachchi from Physics, and Dr. Shengqian Ma from Chemistry.
Distinguished University Professor George Nolas has been awarded a II-VI Foundation
grant for his research in thermoelectric materials.
This is the 10th consecutive year that he has received this award from industry, racking up over $800,000 in research funds.
Profs. Dario Arena and Denis Karaiskaj in Physics have been awarded an NSF grant total
of ~$375k.
The title of the grant is "All Optical, Tunable THz Magnonic Devices."
Prof. Matthias Batzill received an award notice for the 2-year creative extension
of an NSF-DMR project on ‘2D-Heteromaterials’.
The extension provides roughly $280k research funding. According to NSF, “The objective of such extensions is to offer the most creative investigators an extended opportunity to attack adventurous, "high-risk" opportunities in the same general research area, but not necessarily covered by the original/current award.” To date, Prof. Matthias Batzill has received over $4.5M in federal funds as the PI for his research at USF.
Prof. Inna Ponomareva has been awarded a 3-year $405K grant by DOE for a computational
investigation of complex ferroics.
This is a renewal that brings the total DOE award to $1.6M. She has been a prolific researcher in Physics and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Up to date she has brought in close to $2.5M for her research program.