2020 Waterman Award

2020年沃特曼奖

• 批准号: 2038071
• 负责人: John Dabiri
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2038071&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2020; Waterman; Award

Dr. Dabiri is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research focuses on unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics relevant to biology, energy, and the environment.This research has led to the discovery of principles of optimal vortex formation used by biological systems from jellyfish to the human heart, in order to function efficiently in nature. Dr. Dabiri has used these bioinspired engineering concepts to design a new generation of wind turbine arrays with the potential to concurrently reduce the cost, size, and environmental impacts of wind farms. Concurrently, he has developed new experimental techniques to explore biological fluid dynamics in the ocean. This includes a recent demonstration of bionic jellyfish---freely swimming organisms with embedded microelectronics that swim both faster and more efficiently than their non-robotic counterparts, giving them promise as a tool for low-cost ocean exploration.Dr. Dabiri is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Other honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, MIT Technology Review Magazine’s “35 Innovators Under 35”, Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10”, and numerous named lectureships. Dr. Dabiri holds patents including ocean instrumentation, wind energy technology, and tissue engineering. He serves on the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. He has previously served on the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM), the Defense Science Study Group, and as an Advisor to X at Alphabet (formerly GoogleX). His work has appeared on the covers of Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, and other major scientific journals, as well as in the popular press. Dr. Dabiri’s commitment to teaching was recognized by the 2018 Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford University. He is also committed to mentoring a diverse cadre of future leaders in science and engineering, as exemplified by his 15 Ph.D. alumni to date.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Dabiri博士是加州理工学院航空和机械工程的百年教授。他的研究主要集中在非稳态流体力学和流动物理学，特别关注与生物学、能源和环境相关的主题。这项研究发现了生物系统（从水母到人类心脏）的最佳涡流形成原理，以便在自然界中有效地发挥作用。Dabiri博士利用这些生物工程概念设计了新一代风力涡轮机阵列，有可能同时降低风力发电场的成本、尺寸和环境影响。同时，他还开发了新的实验技术来探索海洋中的生物流体动力学。这包括最近展示的仿生水母-一种自由游动的生物体，体内嵌入微电子器件，比非机器人的同类游得更快、更有效，使它们有望成为低成本海洋探索的工具。达比里博士是麦克阿瑟研究员和美国物理学会研究员。其他荣誉包括科学家和工程师总统早期职业奖（PECASE），海军研究办公室青年研究员计划奖，麻省理工学院技术评论杂志的“35名35岁以下的创新者”，大众科学杂志的“辉煌10”，以及许多命名的讲师。Dabiri博士拥有海洋仪器、风能技术和组织工程等专利。他在国家科学院科学、技术和法律委员会任职。他还是《流体力学杂志》和《皇家学会界面杂志》的编委会成员。他曾在美国国家理论与应用力学委员会（USNCTAM）、国防科学研究小组任职，并担任Alphabet（前身为GoogleX）的X顾问。他的工作出现在自然，美国国家科学院院刊，科学进展和其他主要科学期刊的封面上，以及在大众媒体上。Dabiri博士对教学的承诺得到了2018年尤金L.斯坦福大学教学优秀奖。他还致力于指导科学和工程领域未来领导者的多元化干部，他的15个博士学位就是例证。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。