Among the 65 Early Career Research Program award recipients announced last week by DOE’s Office of Science is Paolo Ferracin of the Superconducting Magnet Group in the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Designed to support exceptional researchers during the critical stages of their formative work, the awards focus on areas of high priority for the nation and for DOE’s mission. Grants are administered by major program offices within the Office of Science. This year, well over a thousand applicants from universities and national laboratories submitted proposals.
Ferracin studies advanced superconducting materials, including niobium tin (Nb3Sn), for such applications as future magnets for the Large Hadron Collider and electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources for rare isotope accelerators. His Early Career award from the Office of Nuclear Physics is for his proposal “Development of Nb3Sn Superconducting Magnets for Fourth Generation ECR Ion Sources.”
See the full list of award recipients from Berkeley Lab.
