Shull Fellowship Recipients
2011
Yongqiang Cheng is the Neutron Sciences Shull Fellow for 2011. Yongqiang received his PhD in 2010 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His thesis was on atomic-level structure and the structure-property relationship in metallic glass. His research interests include computational materials science (classical and quantum, atomistic and continuum), multiscale modeling, and simulation; material characterization using synchrotron x-rays; atomic-level structure and structure-property relationships in complex materials; and structures and processes in materials with storage-related applications.
2010
Yang Zhang
The Neutron Sciences Directorate has awarded its 2010 Clifford G. Shull Fellowship to Yang Zhang. Yang comes to ORNL from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he just finished his PhD. in Nuclear Science and Technology in August 2010. Before that he received his BS in Electronic Information Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. Yang's current research focuses on the unusual phase behavior of supercooled water in confined geometry, such as nanoporous materials and the vicinities of various biomolecular surfaces. At ORNL, he will expand his interests to investigate the physics of liquids, glasses, and soft condensed matters. A large portion of his work will involve using a combination of neutron scattering experiments at SNS/HFIR and high-performance computer simulations at the ORNL National Center for Computational Sciences.
2009
Xianglin Ke
Xianglin Ke is the 2009 Shull Fellow. Two years ago, he received his PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Xianglin seeks to master the neutron scattering technique to explore multiferroic systems, thin-film systems, frustrated magnets, exchange bias, and interfacial coupling in magnetic multilayers.
2008
Olivier Delaire
Olivier Delaire was appointed a Shull Fellow in 2008. He received his PhD in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology. His current work involves investigations of the microscopic structure and dynamics of materials for energy applications with neutron scattering and computer simulations.
2007
Christopher Stanley
Christopher Stanley, National Institute of Standards & Technology and the National Research Council, received his PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently working on protein structure and aggregation related to neurological disorders using small-angle neutron scattering.
Sylvia McLain
Sylvia McLain received her PhD in Chemistry in 2004 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After serving for two and one-half years as a National Science Foundation International Research Fellow at the ISIS Facility in the UK, she was awarded a Shull fellowship in 2007. She is currently working at King's College London in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research is focused on the structure and dynamics of small biomolecules, peptides, sugars, and phospholipids in aqueous solution.
2006
Andrew Christianson and Wei-Ren Chen
The first two Shull fellowships were awarded in 2006 to Andrew Christianson and Wei-Ren Chen.
Andrew received his PhD in Physics in 2003 from Colorado State University. Recent work includes studies of new superconducting materials and the structure and dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles.
Wei-Ren received his PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering in 2004 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent work includes studies with synthetic molecules and their possible biomedical applications.
