IMR faculty members receive prestigious NSF CAREER awards

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Tyler Grassman

Two IMR faculty members from the departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Physics recently received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

 

The CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and their integration.

 

Tyler Grassman, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received a five-year, $613,995 CAREER award for research aimed at identifying atomic structures of defects and understanding how they degrade the parent materials’ electronic and optical properties.

 

Grassman’s project, “Revealing the Fundamental Mechanisms Behind the Dislocation-Induced Electronic States in III-V Semiconductors” focuses on determining the atomic-level underlying cause of dislocations in semiconductors caused by the integration of materials with dissimilarities in a crystal structure.

 

“The research that I proposed is a fundamental scientific question that’s been on my mind for a long time and something that my group has been working toward for a while, so this award is an opportunity to really go after it using complex research,” Grassman said. Read the full article here.

 

Brian Skinner

Brian Skinner, assistant professor in Physics, received a five-year, $505,407 continuing grant through the NSF Division Of Materials Research for his project, “Electrical and Thermoelectric Transport Beyond the Metal/Insulator Paradigm.”

 

Skinner joined Ohio State in January 2020 through the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability Discovery Theme, operated by IMR.

 

Skinner was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 2011 and his bachelors of science in Physics and Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2007.