2023 Alan T Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）任命阿塞根·亨利博士为2023年艾伦·t·沃特曼奖获得者。该奖项是美国国家科学基金会的最高荣誉，每年表彰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。今年的获奖者将获得100万美元的资助，为期五年，用于在他的领域进一步深造。Asegun Henry是麻省理工学院（MIT） Robert N. Noyce职业发展副教授和原子模拟与能源（ASE）研究小组主任。他也是the Thermal Battery Corporation的创始人兼首席执行官。在加入麻省理工学院之前，亨利博士是乔治亚理工学院的助理教授。亨利的研究活动范围广泛，从研究原子尺度上的声子传输（热传输）到解决高温下的可再生能源存储和能量转换系统。在基础层面上，亨利教授在无序材料中的声子输运和使用先进计算方法的界面声子输运方面取得了重大进展和贡献。在能源储存领域，他提出了将多余的可再生电力转化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伏发电。他开发了有史以来温度最高的泵，使用全陶瓷机械泵，泵送1400°C以上的液态金属（吉尼斯世界纪录）。亨利教授曾获得多项奖项，包括：美国国家科学基金会职业奖、洛克希德励志青年教师奖、乔治亚电力卓越教授奖、美国机械工程师协会伯格尔斯-罗塞诺传热青年研究员奖。他也是2018年世界能源技术奖的获得者。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-Merck博士后奖学金和福特基金会博士后奖学金。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.