{"671731":{"#nid":"671731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mo Li receives Humboldt Research Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMo Li, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, has received the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award honors internationally leading researchers in recognition of their entire academic record to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Humboldt recipients are academics whose fundamental discoveries, theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own disciplines and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELi\u2019s research focuses on theory and computation of disordered materials \u2014 such as glass and liquid \u2014 with an emphasis on understanding the underlying atomic structures and their relations to properties. These materials are known for the lack of long-range order, making it extremely difficult, if not possible, to determine the exact atomic structures experimentally. The missing connection between the structure and property has challenged scientists for decades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing computational and theoretical approaches, Li\u2019s research is directed towards the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms, process, and structures of the materials. He has made many contributions in the topics of glass transitions, deformation localization in glassy materials, thermodynamic and statistical physics models for metastable systems and their phase transitions, and algorithm development for computations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBesides the honor and recognition, for which I am very grateful, the Humboldt Research Award brings a tremendous opportunity for international collaboration of basic research through the financial support and also the Humboldt network.\u201d Li said. \u0022The fundamental understanding enables us to carry out new experiment and computation that could lead to development of new materials that have not been possible for disordered or amorphous materials.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the honor, the Foundation also provides financial support for Li to foster and carry out creative collaborative research in Germany. Li will work closely with colleagues in two world-class institutions in Germany: Prof. Robert Maa\u00df at Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM) in Berlin and Prof. J\u00f6rg Weissm\u00fcller at Hamburg University of Technology in Hamburg.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey will work on how new design of microstructures in disordered materials could bring revolutionary changes to the physical and mechanical properties and how length scale and geometric and topological shapes influence the surface and interface properties of this class of materials.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELi honored for a lifetime of research in theory and computation of disordered materials\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Li honored for a lifetime of research in theory and computation of disordered materials"}],"uid":"35272","created_gmt":"2023-12-22 19:00:33","changed_gmt":"2024-08-27 14:39:36","author":"aneumeister3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"},{"id":"660369","name":"Matter and Systems"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"186870","name":"go-imat"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pthomas91@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPassion Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}