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The new Interdisciplinary Science BuildingProtein StructureCavity quantum electrodynamics with tunable open microcavitiesColorful crystals of clathrates for thermoelectrics researchWrinkles made by fibroblast cells crawling on silicone rubber surfaceCharged particles in a cloud chamber? - Electrospun polypeptide nanofibers"Lava flow" - SEM image of laser ablated type I clathrate Ba8Ga16Ge30 target surfaceQuasi-one dimensional nanostructuresTiling model of an octagonal quasicrystalSee-through organic solar window for photovoltaic applicationsThe colorful world of peptide electrospinning Physics Colloquium, University of South Florida 3:00 pm, Friday, Mar. 13, 2020, ISA 2023 Refreshment available Dr. Stephan W. Koch Philipps-Universitat Marburg Extreme Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductor and Atomic Systems abstract Distinguished University Professor George Nolas has been awarded a II-VI Foundation grant for his research ion thermoelectric materials. This is the 10th consecutive year that he has received this award from industry, racking up over $800,000 in research funds. Profs. Dario Arena and Denis Karaiskaj in Physics have been awarded an NSF grant total of ~$375k. The title of the grant is "All Optical, Tunable THz Magnonic Devices." Prof. Matthias Batzill received an award notice for the 2-year creative extension of an NSF-DMR project on ‘2D-Heteromaterials’. The extension provides roughly $280k research funding. According to NSF, “The objective of such extensions is to offer the most creative investigators an extended opportunity to attack adventurous, "high-risk" opportunities in the same general research area, but not necessarily covered by the original/current award.” To date, Prof. Matthias Batzill has received over $4.5M in federal funds as the PI for his research at USF. Prof. Inna Ponomareva has been awarded a 3-year $405K grant by DOE for a computational investigation of complex ferroics. This is a renewal that brings the total DOE award to $1.6M. She has been a prolific researcher in Physics and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Up to date she has brought in close to $2.5M for her research program. Profs. Hariharan Srikanth and Manh-Huong Phan have received a $563,247 three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Their research is on "Complex Magnetism and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Materials." This is the pair's fourth successful renewal of DOE funding. Profs. Srikanth and Phan continue to produce an impressive amount of impactful research. Over the past three years (2017-2019), they have published 61 indexed journal articles and received over 2,000 citations to their past work. In the same period, they graduated at least four Ph.D. students. All of their graduates go on to successful careers, many in academic, government, or industrial research. Distinguished Professor George Nolas has just received a grant from the II-VI Foundation to study and optimize thermoelectric half-Heusler alloys. This will be the eighth consecutive year the foundation has supported Prof. Nolas's research. The foundation rarely renews its awards, except for Prof. Nolas's. The grant will support both research and graduate education. New thermoelectric devices are anticipated to play a role in reducing energy consumption by increasing harvesting of waste heat, among other applications. Prof. Nolas's expertise in thermoelectrics and materials generally is recognized internationally and well funded from federal sources as well as this private foundation. Prof. Denis Karaiskaj as the recipient of the 2019 Emery H. and Barbara B. Jewell Faculty Excellence Award. The committee selected Prof. Karaiskaj "for his contributions to time-resolved THz spectroscopy of solids in high magnetic fields and to the elucidation of optical and electronic processes in the solid state." The award is made in recognition of Prof. Karaiskaj's discovery of Dicke superradiance in a naturally occurring mineral, his exploration of multi-excitonic states in two dimensional dichalcogenides, and his probes of quantum coherence between Landau levels. The committee recognizes equally Prof. Karaiskaj's development of the ultrafast spectroscopic techniques that have supported his scientific work. As described in his recent article in Reviews of Scientific Instruments, he now has a broad-band device that can be brought to a high-magnetic-field facility, enabling him to probe systems in entirely new regimes of short time scales and high fields. Prof. Ivan Oleynik in the Department of Physics has just been awarded a new three-year, single-PI, $630K grant by the U.S. Department of Energy. The project is to study "Phase Transitions under Dynamic Compression: Carbon, Silicon and Germanium." This grant continues Prof. Oleynik's work in the computational study of matter under extreme conditions and will bring his career external funding at USF to over $5M. Prof. Oleynik's interests in computational solid-state physics have spanned diverse topics, including diamond, graphene devices, high explosives, and the cores of planets. Prof. Oleynik and the department wish to acknowledge the institutional investment in computational infrastructure that has helped amplify his research. Profs. David Rabson and Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez have been awarded $388,312 through March 2022 for the NSF-REU site in Applied Physics at USF. This grant builds on the success of the REU sites in the physics department started in 2000 by Prof. Ivan Oleynik and continued by Prof. Sarath Witanachchi. Over nine years, the summer REU students have been co-authors on more than 22 peer-reviewed papers and over 30 conference presentations. Many of us in Physics look forward to working with REU students in the coming summers. The program also serves as a mechanism for recruiting highly effective and motivated applicants to our graduate program. Physicists honored for global work. Prof. Sarath Witanachchi was awarded the (unique) honorable mention for Global Research Achievement. The announcement was made at the awards ceremony by Vice President for USF World Roger Brindley and Assistant Vice President Kiki Caruson, who spoke at length about Prof. Witanachchi's research collaborations and educational programs in Botswana, Vietnam, Chile, and Peru. The award was presented by President Genshaft. At the same event, Prof. Dario Arena was recognized for his Fulbright fellowship, which took him to Sweden this past summer. Lastly, Dr. Sayandeb Basu (Director of the Office of National Scholarships and a theoretical particle physicist) and his team won the group award for their work with undergraduates pursuing competitive scholarships for overseas study. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics Dennis Killinger has been serving on panels of national prominence. Prof. Killinger is one of five members of NASA's Active Optical Assessment and Recommendation Team, reviewing all active optical laser instrumentation and research programs within the agency's eleven centers (Goddard, Langley, JPL, etc.). Prof. Killinger is serving as a panel member for the National Academy of Science's review of physics programs within all the U.S. Army's research, development, and engineering centers. Prof. Killinger is co-chairing an Optical Society of America (OSA) conference to be held next year on the theme of Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment. Prof. Killinger's continued work not only contributes to the advancement of interdisciplinary laser science and to national security but also raises the profile of USF. Research Prof. Manh-Huong Phan has just received a three-year research grant of $433,792 from the VICOSTONE-USA company. This project aims to promote a collaborative cutting-edge research program on “Novel Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Devices”, which will greatly impact future technologies and the society. This is a collaborative project with Prof. Pham Thanh Huy (Co-PI) at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. The fund will be used to support the faculty, postdocs and graduate students from both sides to perform the jointly designed experiments. Prof. Jiangfeng Zhou in Physics and Prof. Lu Lu in Mathematics and Statistics have just received a grant of $419K from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The grant is titled "Reversibly Reconfigurable 3D Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices by Magnetically Programmable Polymeric Composites." The project will develop reconfigurable metasurface photonic devices using magnetically programmable polymeric composites to actively control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light. Statistical experimental design, analysis and machine learning methods will be used to understand the device structure, predict and optimize the metasurface performance. This grant involves interdisciplinary collaboration and will support graduate students from both departments. Prof. Lilia Woods in Physics has received a three-year grant from the Department of Energy. The grant is titled "Materials with Nontrivial Topology as a Platform for Fluctuation-Induced Phenomena." This is a highly competitive area of research, and one of Prof. Woods' strengths has to be her well-established expertise in the detailed mechanism of interlayer coupling, as well as in intricate band-structure and optical calculations. This new grant comes on the heels of a grant she and Prof. George Nolas announced just a month ago and also several recent grants in the department on the general topic of two-dimensional materials. Along with Prof. Woods' Review of Modern Physics article from 2016, these development solidify USF's reputation as a major center in one of the hottest areas of solid-state physics. Prof. Sarath Witanachchi in Physics has just been awarded a $299,969 NSF-IRES grant. The grant, International Research Experiences for Students, is titled "USA-Botswana collaborative research towards portable power generation in rural Africa." The project is to develop a portable energy source for rural Africa. It will also be a great learning experience for students. Prof. Lilia Woods and Prof. Matthias Batzill will both receive Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Awards for their accomplishments in 2017. In 2017, Prof. Woods was elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society "for her seminal contributions to the theory of fluctuation-induced and thermoelectric phenomena in condensed matter physics." She published four papers, including one as lead author in Nature Communications. Prof. Woods maintains current funding of over $680,000 as P.I. from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. In 2017, Prof. Batzill published nine papers, eight as lead author. These papers covered sample preparation, characterization, and analysis aimed at discerning unusual physical mechanisms; examples included spin-charge separation along a one-dimensional grain boundary and a charge-density wave arising from an excitonic transition. Three of the papers appeared in the Nature series. Prof. Batzill also received an NSF grant for $435K in 2017, bringing his total active funding to well over $1M. Prof. Lilia Woods and Distinguished University Prof. George Nolas received a new NSF GOALI grant. They will be investigating a new family of chalcogenide materials with potential use in thermoelectricity, with Prof. Woods doing theory and simulations and Prof. Nolas the experiments. These new chalcogenides are mineral-based compounds which can significantly reduce production costs while taking advantage of their “good” properties. In addition to supporting students and postdocs, the grant will also allow the PIs to continue bringing local high-school students to USF. Prof. Matthias Batzill received a $400K NSF grant. Prof. Batzill will synthesize controlled nanostructures in transition metal dichalocgenides by molecular beam epitaxy and investigate their atomic scale properties by scanning probe microscopy. The goal is to modify the fairly inert 2D materials with active sites for (electro)catalytic processes. Most of the funds will be in support of students and postdocs. With this funding (officially a renewal, but with a significant change of direction), Prof. Batzill maintains three simultaneous NSF grants, one each from Engineering, Chemistry, and DMR. Prof. Maria Womack received a second REU supplement on her current NSF grant. The grant title is "Carbon Monoxide in Comets." This extends Prof. Womack's 100% success rate, as a PI, with NSF to 10 proposals (including supplements). Over her career, Prof. Womack has paid 48 undergraduates through her NSF and NASA funding. Four equipment-acquisition proposals have been funded. Profs. Batzill, Srikanth, Arena, Voronine, Gutierrez, Phan, and G. Woods contributed to an MBE chamber for research and teaching; Profs. Karaiskaj, Arena, and Gutierrez contributed to a portable helium liquefier; Profs. Voronine, Gutierrez, Batzill, Muschol, and Prahathees Eswara in CMMB are going in together for a Raman microscope; Prof. Ullah will get a boost for computer nodes. Altogether, this round adds $545,202 in new research infrastructure to the department. Including the PPMS announced last fall, the physics department has been able to acquire well over $1M in equipment for a relatively small investment of PIs' and department resources. The commitment by the institution to infrastructure renewal is notable and will result in impactful research. Distinguished University Professor George Nolas wins a sixth renewal grant from the II-VI Foundation for his research on new thermoelectric materials. The grant, total of well over $0.5M, will support both research and graduate education. Prof. Nolas's expertise in thermoelectrics is recognized internationally and well funded from federal sources as well as this private foundation. Professors Sarath Witanachchi, Hariharan Srikanth, and Manh-Huong Phan have received grants for a new USF travel-grants program. Prof. Witanachchi's award is to support his collaboration with Dr. Gregory Hillhouse and Dr. Davison Murape from Botswana International University of Science and Technology. Their project is titled "USF-Botswana collaborative research towards portable power generation in rural Africa." Prof. Srikanth's grant, for "Garnet thin films with tunable anisotropy for spin caloritronics," supports a collaboration with Dr. Manfred Albrecht in Augsburg. Prof. Phan's grant is to support his collaboration with Dr. Xavier Moya Raposo at the University of Cambridge for "Novel Multicaloric Heterostructures for Advanced Spintronics Applications." Professor Matthias Batzill in Physics has just been awarded $434,692 over three years by the NSF to study van der Waals Heteromaterials. This is a renewal of Prof. Batzill's previous grant in graphene and one of three current NSF grants supporting his wide-ranging research in the physics and chemistry of two-dimensional materials. Prof. Batzill leads a substantial group of graduate students and postdocs publishing important work in this area. Distinguished University Professor George Nolas for again winning a block gift from the II-VI Foundation to support graduate training and research. This extension brings the total grant to $435,000. These grants are highly competitive; in the previous round, there were only 15 awards across all academic fields. (They're not limited to II-VI semiconductors!) The foundation's mission is "to encourage and enable students to pursue a career in engineering, science, and mathematics while maintaining a standard of excellence in that pursuit." Dr. Hariharan Srikanth, Professor of Physics, and Dr. Manh-Huong Phan, Research Associate Professor of Physics, have been awarded a three-year, $464K grant from DOE. The project is to study Complex Magnetism and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated-Electron Oxide Materials. DOE has funded Dr. Srikanth continuously for this project since 2007, which has produced a large number of publications and several international honors and awards. Dr. Ghanim Ullah, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded a $2.1M, five year R01 grant from NIH. Professor Ullah studies molecular signaling pathways computationally, particularly in the context of neuronal disease, including epilepsy as well as Alzheimer's. This work, "A multi-scale data-driven model of the Abeta pore function and Ca2+ toxicity in Alzheimer's disease," neatly joins at least two of the foci in USF's research strategic plan, the brain and data science. Dr. Robert Hoy, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received the NSF CAREER award. His project, "Fundamental Studies of Glassy Polymer Mechanics," has been funded with a five-year, $490,000 grant effective April 1, 2016. The NSF-CAREER award is the Foundation's most prestigious recognition of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Other USF Physics recipients of the award include Dr. Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez (2015), Dr. Inna Ponomareva (2013), Dr. Andreas Muller (2013), Dr. Casey Miller (2010), Dr. Matthias Batzill (2009), and Dr. Maria Womack (1996). As of February 20th 2015, the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP) has accredited our Ph.D. program in applied physics with emphasis in medical physics. Only 23 other universities in the United States offer CAMPEP-accredited Ph.D. programs. Graduates of accredited programs typically continue on to clinical residencies in radiation oncology physics, become board certified in medical physics, and then work in hospitals,cancer centers, and universities. Prof. Ivan Oleynik has been awarded the 2018 Jewell Faculty-Excellence Award. The committee chose Prof. Oleynik "for his contributions to computational materials science and high-pressure physics, especially applied to energetic and two-dimensional materials." Prof. Oleynik uses supercomputers to simulate the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, including high pressure, high temperature, and shock. His work has led to an understanding of the dynamics of explosives as well as to the prediction and discovery of new materials and the demonstration of future device physics in graphene. He has brought close to $5M of external funding to the University of South Florida and graduated five Ph.D. students. Over his career, Prof. Oleynik has published over 120 research papers and organized or chaired more than a dozen meetings and conference sessions. Prof. Oleynik has, since 2015, been a fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Myung (Paul) Kim has been elected to Fellowship in the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) . Fewer than half a percent of the SPIE membership is elected in a given year. Prof. Kim's work centers on the development of and applications for incoherent digital holography. Prof. Lilia Woods has been elected a 2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives. Prof. Woods has been recognized for her seminal contributions to the theory of fluctuation-induced and thermoelectric phenomena in condensed matter physics. Prof. Hari Srikanth has been awarded the 2017 Jewell Faculty Excellence Award. Prof. Srikanth has established a research program at USF that has received sustained funding from federal agencies (over $4M in grants as principal investigator and in excess of $10M in multi-investigator grants) for the past 16 years. The award recognizes annually "those Physics faculty members who are truly outstanding in the areas of research and teaching." The previous recipients were Distinguished University Professor George Nolas (2014), Professor Matthias Batzill (2015), and Professor Lilia M. Woods (2016). Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Dennis Killinger has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in November 2016. Prof. Killinger is also a fellow of the Optical Society of America and of SPIE. Prof. Killinger, although emeritus, remains active in the department and in research. He joins Distinguished University Professor George Nolas in our department as a AAAS fellow. Prof. Hariharan Srikanth has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council in November 2014. He is recognized for important contributions to the experimental studies of magnetization dynamics and novel physics in complex nanocomposites. Prof. George Nolas has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council in November 2013. He is recognized for pioneering studies of novel thermoelectric materials, especially cage-like compounds with low thermal conductivity. Prof. Matthias Batzill receives TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Junior Fellowship. Dr. Matthias Batzill has received a prestigious TUM-IAS (Technische Universitat Munchen - Institute for Advanced Study) Hans Fischer Junior Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded to "Outstanding early-career international scientists, who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas together with a TUM Research Group". This Fellowship will establish active collaborative research between the Nanophysics and Surface Science Laboratory at USF Physics directed by Dr. Batzill and the Technical University of Munich which is the premier University in Germany in technical/scientific disciplines. 13 Nobel Laureates are closely affiliated with TUM. In addition to Hans Fischer, well known physicists like Rudolf L. MoBbauer, Klaus von Klitzing, Wolfgang Paul, Wolfgang Ketterle and Gerhard Ertl taught or received their degrees from TUM. Prof. Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez wins NSF CAREER award. Dr. Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez, Assisitant Professor of Physics, has received the NSF-CAREER Award. His project titled CAREER: Two-Dimensional Heterostructures Based on Transition Metal Dichalcongenides. was funded with a 5-year, $492,412 grant effective July 6, 2015. The NSF-CAREER Award is the Foundation's most prestigious recognition of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Past USF Physics recipients of this Award include Dr. Matthias Batzill (2009), Dr. Casey Miller (2010) and Dr. Andreas Muller 2013. Prof. Inna Ponomareva wins NSF CAREER award. Dr. Inna Ponomareva, Associate Professor of Physics, has received the NSF-CAREER Award. Her project titled CAREER: Towards universal understanding of caloric and other complex effects in ferroics from multiscale modeling. was funded with a 5-year, $435,000 grant effective September 1, 2013. The NSF-CAREER Award is the Foundation's most prestigious recognition of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Past USF Physics recipients of this Award include Dr. Matthias Batzill (2009), Dr. Casey Miller (2010) and Dr. Andreas Muller 2013. APS Inaugural Bridge Program Site The American Physical Society has chosen to fund USF Physics as one of two inaugural Bridge Program sites in the nation. USF and the other site, Ohio State, join the four existing self-supported bridge programs in physics: MIT, Columbia, Michigan, and Vanderbilt. The program will allow us to make a significant contribution to the inclusion of under-represented minorities in graduate physics education, a pressing national need. Congratulations to Casey Miller for spearheading this effort, and to a team of USF Physics collaborators including Garrett Matthews, Xiaomei Jiang and Robert Hoy! The Bridge Program not only brings national recognition for USF but will greatly enhance the graduate education experience for our students in USF Physics. Go to the program page for full details.USF Professor Jiangfeng Zhou Receives 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship Dr. Jiangfeng Zhou, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been selected as a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow. According to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. . The complete list of recipients is available at http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/2013-sloan-research-fellows/ Prof. Andreas Muller wins NSF CAREER award Dr. Andreas Muller, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received the NSF-CAREER Award. His project titled CAREER: Interfacing Remote Quantum Dot Nanostructures by Resonant Light Scattering was funded with a 5-year, $595,000 grant effective February 15, 2013. The NSF-CAREER Award is the Foundation's most prestigious recognition of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Past USF Physics recipients of this Award include Dr. Matthias Batzill (2009) and Dr. Casey Miller (2010). USF Professor George Nolas Elected AAAS Fellow Prof. George Nolas has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) by the AAAS Council in November 2012. He is recognized for contributions to materials and solid-state physics, particularly for the development of thermoelectric materials, and in investigating the fundamental physics of clathrate and clathrate-like materials. The Physics Department is now located in the new Interdisciplinary Science building (ISA). See Tampa Tribune article Physics doctoral students invited to prestigious Nobel meeting Three University of South Florida physics doctoral students, Joseph Fogarty, Aaron Landerville, and Evan Lafalce have been invited to attend the 62nd Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany. read more Listen to University Beat report New faculty members in USF Physics 2017 Dr. Dmitri Voronine , PhD Physics, 2004, Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Dr. Voronine applies a variety of techniques in spectroscopy and imaging to biological and solid-state systems. His research plans at USF include the development of detectors for minute quantities of poisonous and carcinogenic molecules in water and nanometer-scale chemical analysis of bacteria. 2015 Dr. Dario Arena PhD Physics, 2000, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Research Interests on magnetic materials and spin dynamics; spintronics; correlated electron systems; ferromagnetic resonance; synchrotron-based spectroscopy and scattering. Dr. Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez PhD Physics, 2001, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Dr. Alexander McCormick PhD Astronomy, 2015, University of Maryland. Dr. Maria Womack PhD Physics, 1991, Arizona State UniversityDr. Gauri Pradhan PhD Physics, 2002, University of Pune 2013 Dr. Jianjun Pan PhD Physics, 2009, Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ghanim Ullah PhD Biophysics, 2006, Ohio University. Research interests in Neuronal disorders; Markov chain models; Calcium dynamics; Cell signaling pathways; Application of control theory to biology 2012 Dr. Robert S. Hoy (B. A. Physics, Johns Hopkins, 1999; Ph. D. Physics, Johns Hopkins, 2008; Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, 2007-2009; Anderson Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2009-2010; Associate Research Scientist, Departments of Mechanical Engineering Materials Science, and Physics, Yale University, 2010-present) will be joining USF Physics as Assistant Professor effective Fall 2012. His research area is in computational physics, specifically in soft matter physics/materials science. Dr. Zhimin Shi (B. S. Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2001; M. S. Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2004; M. S. Optics, University of Rochester, 2009; Ph. D. Optics, University of Rochester, 2010; Scientist, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 2011-present) will be joining USF Physics as Assistant Professor effective December 2012. His research area encompasses the physics of nonlinear quantum optics on nano-scale platforms and the development of novel optical materials and devices. Experimental research programs will include nanocomposite metamaterials (for energy harvesting) and optical antennas (for biophotonics and single photon source). NSF awards REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site in Applied Physics The REU program leverages the expertise in over 20 research laboratories in our unique doctoral program in Applied Physics at USF. This three-year, $327,000 REU award from NSF will provide nationally recruited undergraduate students high-quality motivational research experiences in four thrust areas in our Department including materials physics; atomic, molecular optical physics/sensors; biomedical/biophysics; and computational/theoretical physics. Other HeadlinesSPS (Society of Physics Students) Expo Crew wins the Best Show Award in Engineering Expo 2012 again!!! SPS (Society of Physics Students) Expo Crew wins the Best Show Award in Engineering Expo 2009, again!!! Video clip from WUSF University Beat Physics is now a part of the new School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (SNSM) Prof. Hariharan Srikanth from physics department has been recognized as a Distinguished University Professor in USF. He is joining an elite group of distinguished professors at USF who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the university. Ph.D. student, Miss. Maggie Kingsland (Major Professor: Inna Ponomareva), has been awarded the DOD SMART Scholarship. This highly competitive and prestigious award will fully support her through her program and beyond. After serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Physics for 5 years, Prof. Hari Srikanth has stepped down from JAP and has taken up a new assignment as Editor for Journal of Alloys and Compounds (JALCOM) published by Elsevier. USF Physics former graduate, Dr. Eleanor Clements (co-advisers Profs. Srikanth and Phan), has received a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director's Fellowship. Prof. Sarath Witanachchi: USF-Botswana Collaborative Research Project to Develop a Portable Energy source for Rural Africa Prof. Lilia Woods & Prof. Ivan Oleynik have been bestowed upon the prestigious honor of AAAS fellow. This is a testament to their exemplary scholarly contributions to their fields. Graduate student Dean Hobbis (Major Professor: George Nolas) has been awarded the 2019 Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award for his MS thesis. This is the 5th student in Dr. Nolas's group to receive this honor. Prof. Manh-Huong Phan has been awarded the 2019 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, again. He is one among 12 other researchers at USF to receive this honor. He was awarded the same in 2017. Ms. Olga Harrington Pinto, one of Dr. Maria Womack's Ph.D. students, has been selected as an LSST Data-Science Fellow. Prof. Ivan Oleynik and Prof. Darío Arena just received Nexus awards from the provost's office. The awards fund collaborative foreign travel. Prof. Ivan Oleynik has just been elected to fellowship in the American Vacuum Society, the professional society for the physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films. Prof. Oleynik is already a fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Artem Khabibullin (Major Professor: Lilia Woods ) just assumed a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratories. Prof. Ivan Oleynik in Physics has been elected to the leadership of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. GSCCM is a unit of APS aimed at promoting the science of matter at extreme conditions including dynamic compression of materials. Prof. Hariharan Srikanth has just been awarded a Fulbright grant to further a collaboration in Singapore. Prof. Srikanth is traveling internationally this year (2019) as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in magnetism, and the Fulbright will add to global awareness of his research (and USF's). Prof. Hariharan Srikanth is formally recognized as a 2019 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer at the Joint MMM-Intermag conference. Also his former PhD student and current postdoc Vijaysankar jointly advised by Profs. Hari Srikanth and Manh-Huong Phan won a highly competitive 'Best Poster' award. Prof. Manh-Huong Phanwill receive one of three honorable mentions for the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, whichis themost prestigious faculty award in Graduate Studies - awarded to the best among the talented mentors that promote graduate education at USF. Graduate student Brad Steele (Major Professor: Ivan Oleynik) wins a 2018 Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award. Prof. Dmitri Voronine has obtained a corporate contract from Kaligia Biosciences, a Largo, Florida company. Profs. Denis Karaiskaj and Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez just published a Nature Communications letter. Prof. Hariharan Srikanth has just been named an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2019. Physics major Stephanie Bauman has been awarded a scholarship from the Tillman Foundation. Prof. Denis Karaiskaj's paper is published in Optica. Graduate student Olga Harrington (Major Professor: Maria Womack) has just been awarded a Genshaft Family Dissertation Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies. Profs. Matthias Batzill, Humberto Gutierrez, and Manh-Huong Phan's paper is published in Nature Nanotechnology. Prof. Manh-Huong Phan has just been appointed a section editor for the Journal of Electronic Materials. Prof. Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez's paper is published in Nature. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Dennis Killinger has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors, USF Research NEWs. Graduate student Mr. Carlos Perez has received the Graduate Student Award at the Hispanic Heritage Event on 10/9/2017. Dr. Kaya Wei (Major Professor: George Nolas) has won a Jack E. Crow postdoctoral fellowship at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Tatiana Eggers,Doctoral student (Major Professor: Dr. Manh-Huong Phan; Co-Major:Dr. Hari Srikanth)won a 2017NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) fellowship under the Dissertation Improvement Fellowship Program. Profs. Ghanim Ullah and Manh-Huong Phan have both been selected by the Office of Research and Innovation for Outstanding Faculty Achievement awards. Prof. Pritish Mukherjee has been appointed as Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Strategic Talent Recruitment, University Reputation, and Impact. Prof. Lilia Woods has been named Woman Physicist of the Month by the American Physical Society. Prof. Maria Womack's work on Echeclus has been highlighted in news.usf and phys.org. Prof. George S. Nolas, conference chair of the 2017 European Materials Research Society conference in Strasbourg, France, May 2017. Prof. Maria Womack in Physics has just received an REU supplement to her NSF grant on "Carbon Monoxide in Comets." The supplement, in the amount of $16,400, will enable her to support three students over the summer for work she expects to lead to several publications. Senior undergraduate, Isabel Rivera, (Major Professor: Maria Womack) has been awarded a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship to study at the University of Central Florida Dr. Dario Arena has just been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to fund a research collaboration in Uppsala in 2018 Dr. Kristen Repa (Major Professor: H.Srikanth M.H. Phan) won the best poster award in her session on November 2, 2016 at the 61st annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conferenceKaya Wei (Major Professor: George S. Nolas) was awarded the 2015-2016 USF Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dr. Nicholas Bingham, Alumni (Major Professors: Hariharan Srikanth and Manh-Huong Phan) has been awarded an NRC Associateship to join NRL. Distinguished University Professor George Nolas appointed as a Dresden Senior Fellow. Kaya Wei (Major Professor G.S. Nolas) awarded the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship allowing her to do research at the Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids. more Spotlight items

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