AMSC Affiliate Faculty Hong-Zhou Ye Receives NSF CAREER Award
The five-year award will support Ye’s efforts to develop free, open-source quantum chemistry tools that will help scientists understand and design better catalysts.
Hong-Zhou Ye, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with a joint appointment in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). This is NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career scientists who have demonstrated notable and promising achievements in both teaching and research.
Over the next five years, Ye will receive nearly $700,000 to develop quantum chemistry tools for studying catalysts, materials that speed up chemical reactions or produce specific results. In addition, the award will support summer research opportunities for local high school students and computational chemistry workshops for UMD undergraduate and graduate students.
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