Two scientists who perform research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research Program awards.

Zach Meisel, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics to receive funding for his proposal, “Constraining Neutron Star Structure with Indirect Nuclear Reaction Studies.” Meisel has an active experimental program at NSCL and will continue it at FRIB. 

Jaideep Singh, Michigan State University assistant professor of physics at FRIB, was selected by the Office of Nuclear Physics to receive funding for his proposal, “Towards a Next Generation Search for Time-Reversal Violation Using Optically Addressable Nuclei in Cryogenic Solids.” Singh has a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

The program, in its ninth year, awards financial support to scientists from universities and DOE national labs to help advance their research. Research proposals are peer-reviewed and selected by one of the following six offices: Advanced Scientific Computing, Biological and Environmental Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics. This year, eighty-four scientists from across the United States were selected for the honor.