2022 News

November 22, 2022

This marks the sixth year in a row and the seventh time overall that Van de Walle has been named a Highly Cited Researcher.

November 19, 2022

Dr. Mark Turiansky Receives the American Physical Society’s 2023 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics

November 17, 2022

Dr. Fangzhou Zhao awarded an “Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award” by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) for the work on Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner recombinations. 

July 14, 2022

The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is a very competitive five-year fellowship, considered the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award. 

May 10, 2022

Mark Turiansky’s dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Lancaster Dissertation Award in the field of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering

May 1, 2022

Dr. Fangzhou Zhao selected as 2021 Elings Prize postdoctoral fellow in the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) of UCSB

April 1, 2022

Dr. Mengen Wang received MRL/DOW travel award at UCSB.

March 31, 2022

Mark Turiansky and Mengen Wang among recipients of travel awards for the 2022 APS March Meeting.