{"id":101567,"date":"2019-08-01T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=101567"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:40:53","slug":"another-national-honor-for-one-of-ucfs-physics-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/another-national-honor-for-one-of-ucfs-physics-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Another National Honor for One of UCF\u2019s Physics Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a second consecutive year, one of UCF\u2019s physics faculty members has been selected for the Department of Energy\u2019s Early Career Research Program.<\/a><\/p>\n

Physics Assistant Professor Luca Argenti is one of 73 scientists across the nation and the only one from Florida selected for the program, which includes a $750,000 grant over five years.<\/p>\n

Argenti\u2019s work is in energy science. His goal is to advance the study of electronic excitations in matter, which are at the core of any chemical transformation, including those used to produce energy from fossil fuels or to harvest it from sunlight.<\/p>\n

\u201cElectronic excitations are extremely difficult to monitor in real time because they take place on a fantastically short timescale \u2014 tens or hundreds of attoseconds, where one attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second,\u201d says Argenti, who has a joint appointment in the College of Optics and Photonics. \u201cTo give you an idea of the scale, one attosecond is to a second what a second is to twice the life of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n