{"673068":{"#nid":"673068","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sciences Faculty Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Mathematics Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/alex-blumenthal\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAlex Blumenthal\u003C\/a\u003E and School of Physics Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChunhui (Rita) Du\u003C\/a\u003E have been selected to receive the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2024. The annual awards from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sloan.org\/fellowships\/2024-Fellows\u0022\u003EAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E honor early-career researchers whose \u201ccreativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders in the fields.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn total, four Georgia Tech faculty are among the 126 individuals selected from a pool of over 1,000 North American researchers nominated this year, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/correa-baena-tapped-sloan-fellowship\u0022\u003EJuan-Pablo Correa-Baena\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/juan-pablo-correa-baena\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/science-breaking-things-security-faculty-earns-prestigious-research-fellowship\u0022\u003EDaniel Genkin\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving the nominations of the most inventive and impactful early-career scientists across the U.S. and Canada,\u201d says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecipients will receive a two-year $75,000 Fellowship in support of their cutting-edge research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u201cI am thrilled to be a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship this year, and I am thrilled for what can be done with it,\u201d says Blumenthal. \u201cI am immensely grateful for the support of my colleagues and that of SoM at large, without whom this would not have been possible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBlumenthal was also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/chasing-chaos-alex-blumenthal-awarded-career-grant-research-chaos-fluid-dynamics\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Erecently awarded an NSF CAREER grant\u003C\/a\u003E to study chaotic fluid dynamics, one of the most challenging problems in his field. His research focuses on dynamic systems, and their statistical properties.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany systems and nature exhibit these seemingly random behaviors \u2014 imagine smoke rising from a candle and mixing with the air in a room, or the ripples of cream as they\u2019re swirled into coffee. While extremely difficult to mathematically model and solve, Blumenthal explains that solving these types of problems could lead to innovations ranging from atmospheric modeling and weather predictions, to economics, to creating better salinity profiles in oceans.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDu is developing quantum sensing and imaging techniques to study quantum materials at very small scales. Quantum materials are a large set of materials that have intriguing, unusual properties, which differ from that of traditional materials.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u201cIt is my great honor to be elected as a new Sloan Research Fellow in Physics,\u201d Du says. \u201cI appreciate the tremendous support from my colleagues, collaborators, mentors, and team members over my career development. This prestigious grant will support my research on developing state-of-the-art quantum sensing techniques to explore novel quantum materials and electronic devices for next-generation information technology.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is involved with designing and engineering hybrid quantum devices, which have applications for quantum information. Her research into spintronics is at the forefront of information technology applications. Du was also recently selected for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nre.navy.mil\/education-outreach\/sponsored-research\/yip\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of Naval Research Young Investigator Program\u003C\/a\u003E, a distinction given to her for her exceptional potential and creative research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech faculty including School of Mathematics faculty \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/computational-neuroscience-digging-deep-georgia-tech\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHannah Choi\u003C\/a\u003E in 2022, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/college-sciences-research-busy-year-grants-fy20\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EYao Yao\u003C\/a\u003E in 2020, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/sloan-foundation-awards-fellowships-four-georgia-tech-emory-faculty\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKonstantin Tikhomirov\u003C\/a\u003E in 2019, Lutz Warnke in 2018, Zaher Hani in 2016, Jen Hom in 2015, and Greg Blekherman in 2012; along with School of Chemistry\u0027s Vinayak Agarwal in 2018, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u0027 Christopher Reinhard in 2015; and School of Physics\u2019 Tamara Bogdanovi\u0107 in 2013 have previously received Sloan Research Fellowships.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMathematician Alex Blumenthal and Physicist Chunhui (Rita) Du are among 126 early-career researchers who have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships for 2024. This year\u2019s appointees also include Georgia Tech faculty Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena of the College of Engineering, and Daniel Genkin of the College of Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alex Blumenthal and Chunhui (Rita) Du are among 126 early-career researchers who have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 2024."}],"uid":"35599","created_gmt":"2024-02-20 15:29:46","changed_gmt":"2026-02-19 17:31:46","author":"sperrin6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673158":{"id":"673158","type":"image","title":"Chunhui (Rita) Du and Alex Blumenthal","body":"\u003Cp\u003EChunhui (Rita) Du and Alex Blumenthal\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1708452482","gmt_created":"2024-02-20 18:08:02","changed":"1708452437","gmt_changed":"2024-02-20 18:07:17","alt":"Chunhui (Rita) Du and Alex Blumenthal","file":{"fid":"256516","name":"Rita-Du-Alex-Blumental-Sloans.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/20\/Rita-Du-Alex-Blumental-Sloans.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/20\/Rita-Du-Alex-Blumental-Sloans.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":371641,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/02\/20\/Rita-Du-Alex-Blumental-Sloans.jpg?itok=_mc_U61A"}}},"media_ids":["673158"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sloan.org\/fellowships\/2024-Fellows","title":"2024 Sloan Research Fellowships "},{"url":"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/correa-baena-tapped-sloan-fellowship","title":"Correa-Baena Tapped for Sloan Fellowship "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/science-breaking-things-security-faculty-earns-prestigious-research-fellowship","title":"The Science of Breaking Things: Security Faculty Earns Prestigious Research Fellowship "}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"193356","name":"cos-math"},{"id":"193266","name":"cos-research"},{"id":"192258","name":"cos-data"},{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Selena Langner\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: jess.hunt@cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJess Hunt-Ralston\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}