2023 Alan T Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）已将Asegun亨利博士命名为2023年艾伦·T。沃特曼奖该奖项是美国国家科学基金会的最高荣誉，每年表彰一位40岁或以下的杰出研究人员，并资助他或她在任何科学或工程领域的研究。今年的获奖者将在五年内获得100万美元的资助，用于在他的领域进行进一步的研究。Noyce职业发展副教授，马萨诸塞州理工学院原子模拟能源（ASE）研究组主任。亨利博士也是热电池公司的创始人兼首席执行官。在加入麻省理工学院之前，亨利博士是格鲁吉亚理工学院的助理教授。亨利博士的研究活动范围很广，从研究原子尺度下的声子输运（热输运）到解决高温下的可再生能源储存和能源转换系统。 在基础层面上，亨利教授对无序材料中的声子输运以及使用先进计算方法在界面处的声子输运做出了重大进展和贡献。在能源储存领域，他开发了将多余的可再生电力转换为储存在熔融硅中的热能的概念，然后可以根据需要使用光化学将其转换为电力。他开发了有记录以来最高温度的泵，该泵使用全陶瓷机械泵，可泵送1400°C以上的液态金属（收录于《健力士世界纪录大全》）。亨利教授曾获多个奖项，包括：国家科学基金会职业奖，洛克希德鼓舞人心的青年教师奖，格鲁吉亚电力优秀教授奖，ASME Bergles-Rohsenow传热学青年研究者奖他还赢家了2018年世界能源技术奖。他曾获得多项奖学金，包括麻省理工学院Lemelson总统奖学金、能源部计算科学研究生奖学金、UNCF-默克博士后奖学金和福特基金会博士后奖学金。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Dr. Asegun Henry as the 2023 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher age 40 years or younger and funds his or her research in any field of science or engineering. This year's awardee will receive a $1 million grant over a five-year period for further advanced study in his field.Dr. Asegun Henry is the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor and Director of the Atomistic Simulation & Energy (ASE) Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Henry is also the founder and CEO of the Thermal Battery Corporation. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Henry was an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech.Dr. Henry's research activities span a broad spectrum from studying phonon transport (heat transport) at the atomistic scale to addressing renewable energy storage and energy conversion systems at high temperatures. At the fundamental level, Professor Henry has made significant advances and contributions to phonon transport in disordered materials, and phonon transport at interfaces using advanced computational approaches. In the area of energy storage he has developed concepts of converting excess renewable electricity into thermal energy stored in molten silicon, that can then be later converted on demand to electricity using photovoltaics. He has developed the highest temperature pump on record, which uses an all-ceramic mechanical pump, to pump liquid metal above 1400°C (in the Guinness Book of World Records).Professor Henry has been the recipient of a number of awards including: the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award, the Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award, the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer. He was also the winner of the 2018 World Technology Award for Energy. He has been awarded a number of fellowships including an MIT Lemelson Presidential Fellowship, a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, a UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.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.