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March 26, 2007,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lisa De Nike
(443) 287-9960
lde@jhu.edu


Gritsan Wins 2007 NSF Career Award
and Sloan Fellowship
Andrei Gritsan
Andrei Gritsan

Andrei Gritsan of The Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy has won the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship for his work in elementary particle physics.

The NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Award recognizes young scientists' devotion to both research and education with a five-year, $550,000 grant. The Sloan Fellowship brings with it a two-year, $45,000 grant.

"It is a great honor to receive these awards," said Gritsan, an assistant professor. "I have been fortunate to uncover some mysteries of matter and antimatter at the smallest scale. Now these awards will allow me to pursue my research at the frontier particle accelerator experiments.

"It is an exciting time for the field as we believe that particle physics is standing within reach of new discoveries," he said. "We are now preparing a new experiment within an international collaboration of scientists. The awards will provide stipends for graduate students and a postdoctoral fellow working with me on the project."

The National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program supports young teacher-scholars who have exhibited creative, integrative and effective research and education plans developed within the context of their organization's missions and goals.

Gritsan also was one of 118 young scientists and economists to receive Sloan Research Fellowships this year in recognition of their potential to contribute to academic advancement. Since the Sloan Foundation began awarding fellowships in 1955, 32 fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers.

Gritsan has been at Johns Hopkins since 2005. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1994 and 1996, respectively, from Novosibirsk State University in Siberia He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000 and worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory prior to coming to Johns Hopkins.

"We are delighted to have Andrei Gritsan on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy," said Jonathan Bagger, department chair. "We are gratified that his pathbreaking work on the properties of matter and antimatter has been recognized by the Sloan and National Science foundations, and we look forward to exciting discoveries in the years ahead."

Color digital photos of Gritsan are available. Contact Lisa De Nike at Lde@jhu.edu or by calling 443-287-9960.


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