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Three Fermilab-affiliated researchers receive prestigious DOE awards

One Fermilab researcher and two assistant professors working on Fermilab experiments were selected to receive the DOE Early Career Research Award, a prestigious financial award given to the most promising researchers in the early stages of their careers.

This year, 65 researchers were selected from a pool of about 1,150 university- and national laboratory-based applicants. Among the recipients were:

  • Aaron Chou, Fermilab astrophysicist
  • Aran Garcia-Bellido, assistant professor at the University of Rochester
  • Ryan Patterson, assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology

According to the DOE press release, the five-year awards are "designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early years, when many scientists do their most formative work."

The funding received through the awards will be used by recipients to carry out the research detailed in their respective proposals (see abstract proposals for all recipients online).


Aaron Chou

Aaron Chou

It is possible that the universe we live in is holographic, and Aaron Chou wants to be the one to find out.

Chou is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Research Award for his research proposal, titled, Search for Holographic Noise from the Planck Scale. Chou will be setting out to discover if the universe is truly 3D as it seems to the naked eye, or if it is actually 2D with the appearance of being 3D, much like a hologram.

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Aran Garcia-Bellido

Aran Garcia-Bellido

More thorough analyses of the large amount of existing particle-collision data from the Tevatron and LHC have potential to reveal new physics beyond the Standard Model, and Aran Garcia-Bellido hopes to be a key player in making these discoveries.

Garcia-Bellido, assistant professor at the University of Rochester and collaborator on the DZero and CMS experiments, is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Research Award for his research proposal titled, Precision physics and searches with top and bottom quark. The financial award will provide five years of funding to support the work.

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Ryan Patterson

Ryan Patterson

The NOvA project will employ new detector technology to study neutrinos, and Ryan Patterson wants to get the most out of that technology as possible.

Patterson, assistant professor of physics at Caltech and NOvA collaborator, is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Research Award for his research proposal titled, "Developing novel techniques for readout, calibration and event selection in the NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment." The financial award will provide five years of funding for Patterson to carry out this work.

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