2019 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)提名詹妮弗·迪翁博士为2019年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖的两名获奖者之一。该奖项是NSF的最高荣誉，每年表彰年龄在40岁或以下的杰出研究人员，并为他或她在任何科学或工程领域的研究提供资金。今年的获奖者将在五年内获得100万美元的补助金，用于在他或她的领域进一步深造。迪翁博士是斯坦福大学的材料科学和工程学副教授。她的研究重点是开发新的纳米和光学材料，应用范围从高效的能量转换和存储到生物成像和操纵。这项研究展示了可见光波长的负折射，开发了亚波长硅电光调制器，设计了用于对映体选择性分选的等离子体光钳，展示了超材料流体，并合成了高效和主动上转换材料。最近，Jen开发了用纳米级空间分辨率可视化化学变化和光-物质相互作用的原位技术。Dionne博士获得了来自不同技术学会的奖项和认可，包括阿道夫·隆布奖章(2016)、斯隆奖学金(2015)、德莱弗斯教师学者奖(2015)、总统科学家和工程师早期职业奖(2014)，以及首届Kavli纳米科学早期职业生涯讲座(2013)。她还被评为《技术评论》的TR35-35年度35岁以下国际创新者之一，以变革性的方式解决重要问题(2011)。此外，她还获得了圣路易斯华盛顿大学杰出青年校友奖(2012)、国家科学基金会职业生涯奖(2012)、空军科学研究办公室青年研究人员补助金(2010)、加州理工学院克劳瑟最佳论文奖(2009)和材料研究学会杰出研究生金奖(2008)。Jen在国际会议上获得了多个最佳论文奖，并持有全光学手性拆分、上转换材料、光镊子、纳米光学层析成像、等离子体调制器和等离子体显示技术的专利。她的研究成果还出现在《自然》、《科学》和其他主要科学期刊上，以及公共广播公司和Kaku的《不可能的物理学》一书中。Dionne认为外展是她作为一名教育工作者角色的关键组成部分，她在科学界和普通社区都很活跃。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 Jennifer Dionne one of the two 2019 recipients 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 awardees will receive a $1 million grant over a five-year period for further advanced study in his or her field. Dr Dionne is a material science and engineering associate professor at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the development of new nano and optical materials for applications ranging from high-efficiency energy conversion and storage to bioimaging and manipulation. This research has led to demonstration of negative refraction at visible wavelengths, development of a subwavelength silicon electro-optic modulator, design of plasmonic optical tweezers for enantioselective sorting, demonstration of a metamaterial fluid, and synthesis of high-efficiency and active upconverting materials. Most recently, Jen has developed in situ techniques to visualize chemical transformations and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.Dr Dionne has received awards and recognition from a diverse group of technical societies, including the Adolph Lomb Medal (2016), a Sloan Fellowship (2015), Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2015), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2014), as well as the inaugural Kavli Nanoscience Early Career Lectureship from MRS (2013). She was also named one of Technology Review's TR35 - 35 international innovators under 35 tackling important problems in transformative ways (2011). In addition, she has received the Outstanding Young Alum award from Washington University in St. Louis (2012), the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2012), an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Grant (2010), the Clauser Prize for best Caltech thesis (2009), and the Materials Research Society Gold Award for outstanding graduate student (2008). Jen has received several best paper awards at international conferences and holds patents on all-optical chiral resolution, upconverting materials, optical tweezers, nano-optical tomography, plasmonic modulators, and plasmonic display technologies. Her work also been featured in Nature, Science, and other major scientific journals, as well as on PBS and in Michio Kaku's book 'Physics of the Impossible'.Dr. Dionne perceives outreach as a critical component of her role as an educator, and is active both in the scientific and general communities.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.