Four faculty members at the Michigan State University received $1.1 million grants from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct research on various topics.
The grants were extended by the Department’s offices of Biological and Environmental Research, Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics, and Fusion Energy Sciences.
Shiyou Ding, who is an associate professor of plant biology, received $500,000 grant to help biologists understand plant development and biomass deconstruction by developing real-time imaging and quantification of plant wall constituents.
“The technology can be made available immediately for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, fellow DOE Bioenergy Research Centers and other research communities to foster collaborative study of different types of biomass and deconstruction processes,” Ding said.
Yue Hao, an associate professor of physics, received a $300,000 grant to guide the optimization of the parameters of nonlinear elements and develop a six-dimensional analysis method to investigate the dynamics in particle accelerators.
Theoretical and computational physicist Michael Murillo received a $150,000 grant from the Energy Department to explore the dynamics of energetic collisions between charged particles in fusion-class plasmas, while a physics and astronomy professor, Jaideep Singh, physics and astronomy professor received $125,000 to work on observing an electric dipole moment.
