Three Members of the Physics Department Recognized by University
Each year Florida State University recognizes outstanding research accomplishments by professors and research scientists. The Department of Physics is proud to announce that three members of the department have been selected for this year's awards. Professor Bernd Berd has received the Distinguished Research Professor Award, Professor Alexander Volya has received the Developing Scholar Award, and Professor Ingo Wiedenhover has received the Honors Thesis Mentoring Award. Recipient of Distinguished Research Professor AwardThe Distinguished Research Professor (DRP) award has been designed to recognize outstanding research and/or creative activity of eligible Florida State University faculty. It is open to full-professors who have completed at least five years in the rank of Professor at FSU. Berg has been honored with this award for his outstanding contributions to computational physics, which has become an essential component to modern physics research. Among a number of pioneering contributions to lattice quantum field theory (a branch of particle physics), Berg's multicanonical simulation method has been most influential. Originally developed in particle physics, this approach has found its way over statistical physics into biophysics and biochemistry as documented in about 1,500 citations of the two original papers. Berg has also written a well received textbook on Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations. Originally from Germany, Berg studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, was a Fellow at CERN and an Assistant Professor at Hamburg University before joining the Florida State University in 1985 as an Associate Professor. Berg is the Dirac Professor of Physics at the Florida State University, received the Leibniz Professorship of Leipzig University, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the senior Research Prize of the German Humboldt Foundation. Recipient of Developing Scholar AwardDeveloping Scholars are mid-career associate professors who have been singled out by their peers for recognition. The Developing Scholar Award is based on evidence of a clearly established program of teaching, research and creativity lasting over a number of years. Associate Professor Alexander Volya received the FSU 2012 Developing Scholar Award. Dr. Volya received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and carried out postdoctoral work at the Argonne National Laboratory prior to joining FSU in 2003. His research work focuses on novel aspects of nuclear physics and its connections to astrophysics, mesoscopic physics, fundamental science, quantum chaos, and many-body physics in general. He co-authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, he was invited to give series of lectures at national and international schools on nuclear physics, and he serves as a panel member in review committees for Federal Funding Agencies. Honors Thesis Mentor AwardThe Honors Thesis Mentor Award was presented to Associate Professor Dr. I. Wiedenhoever for the year 2011-2012. The award recognizes a faculty member who has been outstanding in his service to the students in the Honors Program. Since 2002, Dr. Wiedenhoever has supervised seventeen undergraduate research projects , six of which were/are being performed as Honors in the Major theses. Ingo Wiedenhoever is an Associate Professor at the Florida State University Physics Department and serves as the Associate Director for Operations at the John D. Fox accelerator laboratory. His research interests are in Experimental Nuclear Physics, in particular the physics of exotic nuclei and nuclear astrophysics. He performs experiments at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and established a new research program with the RESOLUT facility at FSU's John D. Fox accelerator laboratory. He was elected as chair of the User Executive Committee of the NSCL in 2007 and elected to the FRIB User Committee in 2009. Ingo Wiedenhoever was the 2010 recipient of the FSU Developing Scholar Award. |
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