PARADIM Highlight #90—Outreach (2024)
PARADIM User Program
Funding Sponsors
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) funded through NSF provide free access to and training on state-of-the-art equipment. Based on accepted projects to use PARADIM, our User Program is particularly interesting for young researchers and faculty at the start of their own research group, at a time when the required equipment or well-trained personnel might not be readily available at their home institutions.
Most importantly, access to PARADIM includes support by knowledgeable scientific staff. Independent research projects can be pursued immediately and the projects’ associated users—usually fresh graduate students—receive invaluable hands-on training and guidance on all aspects of their Materials-by-Design discoveries. Further, annual PARADIM Summer Schools offer week-long deep dives on rotating topics of materials discovery guided by the MGI loop.
Examples of assistant professors—at the time of submission of their PARADIM proposal—whose success at user projects at PARADIM led to subsequent funding.
Prof. Daniel Kwabena Bediako (UC Berkeley)
Prof. Antia Botana (Arizona State University)
- 2020 NSF “CAREER: Discovering and Understanding Layered Nickelate Superconductors,” NSF-DMR-2045826,;
- Sloan Research Fellowship 2022
Prof. Ryan Comes (Auburn University)
- AFOSR YIP 2019, “Metastable Oxides for High-Mobility and Spin-Orbit 2D Electronics” ;
- 2020 NSF “CAREER: Topological Phenomena in 4d and 5d Complex Oxide Interfaces and Superlattices Grown by Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy,” NSF-DMR-2045993,
Prof. Serena Eley (Colorado School of Mines)
- 2020 NSF “CAREER: Skyrmion-Vortex Interactions in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Heterostructures,” NSF-DMR-2046925, .
Prof. Lauren Garten (Georgia Tech)
Prof. Samaresh Guchhait (Howard University)
Prof. A. Shoji Hall (Johns Hopkins University)
- 2020 NSF “CAREER: Room Temperature Electrochemical Synthesis of Ordered Intermetallic Nanomaterials," NSF-DMR-2047019.
Prof. Robert Hovden (University of Michigan)
- 2023 DOE-BES “Room Temperature Stabilization of Ordered 2D Charge Density Waves in Atomically Thin Materials,” DE-SC0024147
Prof. Huiwen Ji (University of Utah)
- 2021 NSF “CAREER: Probing and Exploiting Short-range Order in Crystalline Materials for Fast Ion Transport,” NSF-DMR-2145832, .
Prof. Jason Kawasaki (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Prof. Martin Mourigal (Georgia Tech)
- 2017 NSF “CAREER: Anomalous spin dynamics in triangular quantum magnets: from materials discovery to quantitative neutron spectroscopy,” NSF-DMR-1750186 ;
- DOE-BES: “New Controlling quantum coherence in frustrated spin-orbit magnets,“ DE-SC0018660.
Prof. Julia Mundy (Harvard University)
- 2021 DOE-BES “Epitaxial Stabilization of Novel Superconductors for Energy Generation, Storage and Distribution,";
- Sloan Research Fellowship 2022,;
- 2023 NSF "CAREER: Epitaxial stabilization of non-perovskite oxide quantum materials” NSF-DMR-2339913
Prof. Jian Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- Work at PARADIM provided important results for obtaining tenure at home institution,
- 2020 NSF award CMMI #2024972, “Scalable Manufacturing of Single Crystalline Halide Perovskite Film via Interface Engineering,” ;
- 2020 NSF award EPMD #2031692 “Symmetry-protected spin dynamics in ferroelectric spin device” ;
- and an ARO STIR.
Prof. Vladan Stevanovic (Colorado School of Mines)
- 2019 NSF “CAREER: Toward Rational Discovery and Design of Metastable Materials” NSF-DMR-1945010.
