2023 Alan T Waterman Award

2023 年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖

• 批准号: 2328775
• 负责人: Asegun Henry
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2328775&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2023; Alan; Waterman; Award; 2023; Alan; Waterman; Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Dr. Asegun Henry as the 2023 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher age 40 years or younger and funds his or her research in any field of science or engineering. This year's awardee will receive a $1 million grant over a five-year period for further advanced study in his field.Dr. Asegun Henry is the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor and Director of the Atomistic Simulation & Energy (ASE) Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Henry is also the founder and CEO of the Thermal Battery Corporation. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Henry was an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech.Dr. Henry's research activities span a broad spectrum from studying phonon transport (heat transport) at the atomistic scale to addressing renewable energy storage and energy conversion systems at high temperatures. At the fundamental level, Professor Henry has made significant advances and contributions to phonon transport in disordered materials, and phonon transport at interfaces using advanced computational approaches. In the area of energy storage he has developed concepts of converting excess renewable electricity into thermal energy stored in molten silicon, that can then be later converted on demand to electricity using photovoltaics. He has developed the highest temperature pump on record, which uses an all-ceramic mechanical pump, to pump liquid metal above 1400°C (in the Guinness Book of World Records).Professor Henry has been the recipient of a number of awards including: the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award, the Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award, the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer. He was also the winner of the 2018 World Technology Award for Energy. He has been awarded a number of fellowships including an MIT Lemelson Presidential Fellowship, a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, a UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

国家科学基金会（NSF）将Asegun Henry博士任命为2023年的Alan T. Waterman奖。该奖项是NSF的最高荣誉，该奖项每年都会认可40岁的杰出研究人员或年轻时，并在任何科学或工程领域为他或她的研究提供资金。今年的奖项将在五年内获得100万美元的赠款，以在其领域进行进一步的高级研究。 Asegun Henry是马萨诸塞州技术学院（MIT）的Robert N. Noyce职业发展副教授兼原子模拟与能源（ASE）研究小组的主任。亨利博士还是Thermal Battery Corporation的创始人兼首席执行官。在加入麻省理工学院的教职员工之前，亨利博士曾是佐治亚理工学院的助理教授。亨利的研究活动跨越了从研究原子量表的声子传输（热传输）到在高温下可再生能源存储和能量转换系统的广泛范围。在基本水平上，亨利教授使用先进的计算方法在界面上以无序材料和声子运输的贡献做出了重大进展和贡献。在储能领域，他开发了将可再生电的转换为熔融硅中存储的热能的概念，然后可以随后使用光伏电力转换为电力。 He has developed the highest temperature pump on record, which uses an all-ceramic mechanical pump, to pump liquid metal above 1400°C (in the Guinness Book of World Records).Professor Henry has been the recipient of a number of awards including: the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award, the Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award, the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer.他还是2018年世界能源技术奖的获奖者。他获得了许多奖学金，包括MIT Lemelson总统奖学金，能源计算系科学研究生奖学金，UNCF-MERCK博士后奖学金和福特基金会的博士后奖学金。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估了CRARICAIL和FRODICAIL and IFTICAIL和BRODITIAL和BRODITIAL和BRODIT and IFTIAL和BRIDIT timatial and Intifual and Intifual and Intifual的支持。