{"id":30057,"date":"2021-06-01T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=30057"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:42:36","slug":"three-uf-engineering-faculty-receive-early-career-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/honors-awards\/three-uf-engineering-faculty-receive-early-career-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Three UF engineering faculty receive Early Career Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the National Science Foundation promotes the technical and leadership abilities of recognized young researchers by presenting them with NSF Early CAREER awards. A summary from the NSF website states, \u201cThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation&#8217;s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, NSF recognized three promising young researchers from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Charles Hages, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hages is concentrating his research on renewable energy. His NSF CAREER award is for \u201cDeveloping solution-based thin-film chalcogenide perovskites.\u201d These low-cost, non-toxic, stable photovoltaic materials can be produced from earth-abundant constituents and should be able to replace the current metal halide perovskites, exhibiting improved stability. The CAREER award will help fund his lab\u2019s work for the next five years. (See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.che.ufl.edu\/hages-receives-nsf-career-award-to-create-new-semiconductor-material-for-clean-and-renewable-solar-energy\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yeongseon Jang, PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jang\u2019s research, \u201cEngineering Self-Assembly of Recombinant Fusion Proteins for Bottom-Up Construction of Protein-Powered Synthetic Protocells,\u201d will focus on designing synthetic versions of primitive cells powered by proteins that can be used for a wide range of applications such as particle delivery systems or even micro-bioreactors. Dr. Jang hopes to advance understanding of the basic rules of life through her research and to establish academic curricula for recombinant fusion proteins. (See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.che.ufl.edu\/jang-receives-nsf-career-award-to-develop-synthetic-protocells\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Victoria Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Miller\u2019s research will utilize statistical methods and machine learning to investigate the micro-scale structure of materials during manufacture. Her project, titled \u201cA Probabilistic Framework for the Nucleation of Recrystallization,\u201d advances the ability to predict the initiation sites for microstructure changes can help prevent material failure during service in extreme environments, such as in aircraft engines or power plants. It can also be used to optimize materials processing during manufacturing, potentially reducing the cost of metals processing.\u00a0(See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/mse.ufl.edu\/tori-miller-nsf-career-award\/\">here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, NSF recognized three promising young researchers from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering by presenting them with NSF Early CAREER awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors-awards","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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