Wanzheng Hu recently received a supplemental funding to her five-year DOE Early Career Award, bringing the total funding amount to $929,769.
This project aims at ultrafast and bidirectional manipulation of ordered phases in quantum materials using laser excitation of optical phonons. The objectives include ferroelectrics and multiferroics, and light-induce synthetic states of matter in perovskite superlattices. The research involves table-top pump-probe experiment at Boston University, and experiment at X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities such as LCLS.
Wanzheng Hu has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the agency’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Europe. Scientific excellence is the sole criterion, which is applied to the evaluation of both the research proposal and the Principal Investigator. The evaluation is a two-step process including the interview. ERC grant supports ground-breaking, high-risk/ high-gain research irrespective of the gender, age, nationality of the Principal Investigator and other potential biases. Research funded by the ERC is expected to lead to advances at the frontiers of knowledge and to set a clear and inspirational target for frontier research across Europe.