{"id":110569,"date":"2020-06-24T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=110569"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:05:42","slug":"the-department-of-energy-selects-ucf-physicist-for-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/the-department-of-energy-selects-ucf-physicist-for-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Energy Selects UCF Physicist for Career Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Energy has awarded UCF physicist<\/a> and assistant professor Li Fang a career grant of $785,000.<\/p>\n

The award is part of the DOE\u2019s Office of Science\u2019s Early Career Research Program, which recognizes researchers for their promising work, early on in their careers. This year, only 76 awards were made to scientists at private and public institutions nationwide and Fang was the only Florida winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporting talented researchers early in their career is key to fostering scientific creativity and ingenuity within the national research community,\u201d says DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar. \u201cDedicating resources to these focused projects led by well-deserved investigators helps maintain and grow America\u2019s scientific skill set for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be eligible for the DOE award, a researcher<\/a> must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant, associate professor at a U.S. academic institution, or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory, who received a Ph.D. within the past 10 years. Research topics are required to fall within one of the DOE Office of Science’s six major program offices. Fang\u2019s work falls into atomic, molecular, and optical sciences part of the DOE Basic Energy Sciences program.<\/p>\n