Prof. Chris Van de Walle received Prestigious Vannevar Bush Fellowship
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.
Prof. Chris Van de Walle has received a 2022 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), one of only nine such fellowships awarded this year. The five-year fellowship, considered the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award, is aimed at advancing transformative, university-based fundamental research and includes over $2.5 million in funding. Prof. Van de Walle will develop new computational approaches to enhance the efficiency of electronic and optoelectronic devices based on wide-bandgap semiconductors. The DoD emphasizes that the VBFF program is oriented towards bold and ambitious “blue sky” research that will lead to extraordinary outcomes or disrupt accepted theories and perspectives.
Prof. Van de Walle joins an elite cadre of approximately 50 current Fellows who conduct basic research in areas of importance to the DoD, including materials science, cognitive neuroscience, quantum information sciences, and applied mathematics, among other disciplines.
