Congratulations to Salvatore for winning BU’s UROP fellowship! Salvatore will receive a $6,000 Student Research Award (SRA) to conduct research in our group from June 3rd to August 9th 2024.
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DOE Early Career Award for Wanzheng Hu
Wanzheng Hu has received a CAREER Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
To be eligible for the DOE award, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. The applicant must also have received a Ph.D. within the past ten years.
DOE Early Career Research Program supports six research programs:
I. Advanced Scientific Computing Research
II. Biological and Environmental Research
III. Basic Energy Sciences
IV. Fusion Energy Sciences
V. High Energy Physics
VI. Nuclear Physics
There are 76 awardees for the DOE Early Career Program for FY 2020. University awards average around $750,000 for five years.
NSF CAREER Award for Wanzheng Hu
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.
ERC starting grant for Wanzheng Hu
Wanzheng Hu has been awarded a Starting Grant worth up to €1.79 million by the European Research Council (ERC).
ERC grant is the highest research funding for individuals in 
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.
ERC starting grant supports researchers with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD. A total of 3085 proposals were submitted in response to the ERC 2017 Starting Grant Call (ERC-2017-STG), in which 1339 proposals were submitted to the Physical Sciences & Engineering Panels.
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