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Virginia Tech Physicist Receives Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy
- Marie Boër, assistant professor of physics at Virginia Tech's College of Science, has won the DOE's 2024 Early Career Research Award.
- Boër will receive a significant amount of funding ($875,000 over 5 years) to evolve partons (fundamental constituents of protons and neutrons) in nuclear physics.
- The award is given to emergent researchers, who have the potential to produce groundbreaking results.
- The strategic objective of the Early Career Research Program is to stimulate research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE.
- Boër wants to study partons, leading to a more profound insight into the constituents of matter, thereby widening understanding of the universe.
- She will use the funds to generate a three-dimensional representation of the distributions of quarks and gluons to capture important details on how partons behave inside protons.
- Boër aims to develop a muon detector to gather additional information on parton behaviours.
- International collaborations will help expand the hadronic physics landscape, introducing new students and scholars to this field of study.
- Boër will work with researchers from international groups, for student exchanges and joint research.
- This Early Career Research Award not only validates Boër's achievements, but also paves the way for understanding basic constituents of our universe.
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