Outstanding Junior Investigator
Program

The Office of Nuclear Physics invites grant applications for support under the Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Program in nuclear physics. The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers. Applications should be from tenure-track faculty who are currently involved in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics research, and be submitted through a U.S. academic institution.

Solicitations for grant applications generally go out in the Summer with a submission deadline in the Fall.  When available, a link to OJI application information can be found at the Office of Science's Grants and Contracts Website. 

Recipients of awards: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000

Year: 2008
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Alexandra Gade	Michigan State University	Nuclear Structure	None
	OJI Title: Study of Correlation Effects in Nuclei at the Limit of Stability
Karsten Heeger,	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Fundamental Symmetries	http://www.physics.wisc.edu/people/faculty/kheeger/
	OJI Title: Measurement of Neutrino Properties With Bolometric Detectors
Bradley Plaster	University of Kentucky	Hadronic Physics	http://www.pa.uky.edu/bios/Plaster.html
	OJI Title: Fundamental Electroweak and Hadronic Physics Studies of the Neutron
Year: 2007
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Konstantinos Orginos	College of William and Mary	Theory	http://andros.physics.wm.edu/~kostas/
	OJI Title: Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD
Thomas Papenbrock	University of Tennessee	Theory	http://www.phy.ornl.gov/theory/papenbro/papenbro.html
	OJI Title: Structure of Rare Isotopes
Kent Paschke	University of Virginia	Hadronic Physics	http://www.phys.virginia.edu/People/personal.asp?UID=kdp2c
	OJI Title: Precision Electroweak Studies at Low Q2 Using Parity-Violating Electron-Scattering
Derek Teaney	Arkansas State University	Theory	http://chemistryandphysics.astate.edu/teaney/
	OJI Title: Establishing the Transport Properties of QCD with Heavy Ion Reactions
Year: 2006
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Sean Fleming	University of Arizona	Theory	http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~fleming/
	OJI Title: Effective Field Theories and Strong Interactions
Joseph Formaggio	MIT	Low Energy	http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/ faculty/joseph_formaggio.html
	OJI Title: Probing the Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale with the Next Generation Tritium Beta Decay Experiment
Michael Zingale	Stony Brook	Theory	http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale/
	OJI Title: Multidimensional Modeling of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions
Year: 2005
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Mark Alford	Washington University	Theory	http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~alford/ high_density.html
	OJI Title: Color Superconductivity in High-Density Quark Matter
Yuri Kovchegov	Ohio State University	Theory	http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~yuri/
	OJI Title: High Energy QCD
Thomas Mehen	Duke University	Theory	http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mehen
	OJI Title: Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory
Year: 2004
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Joshua R. Klein	University of Texas	Experimental	http://www.ph.utexas.edu/faculty/klein.html
	OJI Title: Search for the MSW Effect and Other New Physics with the Boron-8 Solar Neutrino Spectrum
Norbert Pietralla	Stony Brook University	Experimental	NA
	OJI Title: Nuclear Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at the Limit of Particle Spectroscopy
Julia Velkovska	Vanderbilt University	Experimental	http://www.hep.vanderbilt.edu/~julia/index.html
	OJI Title: Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Chambers as a Time-of-Flight System for PHENIX
Year: 2003
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Steffen Bass	Duke University	Theory	http://www.phy.duke.edu/~bass/
	OJI Title:  Modeling and Analysis of Ultra Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Shailesh Chandrasekharan	Duke University	Theory	http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sch/
	OJI Title:  Towards the Chiral Limit in QCD
Iain Stewart	MIT	Theory	http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/ faculty/iain_w_stewart.html
	OJI Title: Unraveling the Structure of Hadrons with Effective Field Theories of QCD
Nilanga Liyanage	University of Virginia	Experimental	http://www.phys.virginia.edu/People/ personal.asp?UID=nl8n
	OJI Title:  Study of Neutron Spin Structure Using Jefferson Lab Hall A Polarized 3HE Target
Year: 2002
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Gail McLaughlin	N. Carolina State Univ.	Theory	http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/new_site/ html/people.html
	OJI Title:  Physics of Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts: Weak Interactions and Element Synthesis
Daniel R. Phillips	Ohio University	Theory	http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/people/ faculty/phillips.html
	OJI Title:  Few Nucleon Systems in the Laboratory, Supernovae and the Cosmos
Thomas M. Schaefer	Stony Brook University	Theory	http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/
	OJI Title:  QCD, Hadrons, and Matter Under Extreme Conditions
Fuqiang Wang	Purdue University	Experimental	http://www.physics.purdue.edu/faculty/wang/
	OJI Title:  Systematic Studies of Heavy Ion Collisions to Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Ingo Wiendenhoever	Florida State University	Experimental	NA
	OJI Title:  Spectroscopy of Resonances in the Astrophysical rp-Process Path
Year: 2001
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Gunther Roland	MIT	Experimental	NA
	OJI Title: Event-by-Event Physics with the PHOBOS Detector at RHIC
Michael Romalis	Univ. of Washington	Experimental	www.phys.washington.edu/~romalis/
	OJI Title: Search for a Permanent Electric Dipole Moment in Liquid 129Xe
Mikhail Stephanov	Univ. of Illinois	Theory	NA
	OJI Title: Dense and Baryon-Rich Matter
Ubirajara  Van Kolck	Univ. of Arizona	Theory	physics.arizona.edu/~vankolck/
	OJI Title: Effective Theories of the Strong Interaction
Year: 2000
Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution Where Awarded	Research Category	PI's Home Page
Todd Averett	College of William and Mary	Experimental	www.wm.edu/wmnews/072000/ averettzhang.html
	OJI Title:  Neutron Structure Studies Using Polarized Helium-3
Haiyan Gao	MIT	Experimental	pierre.mit.edu/~haiyan/
	OJI Title:  A Novel Laser-Driven Polarized H/D Internal Gas Target
James Nagle	Columbia University	Experimental	phys.columbia.edu/faculty/nagle.htm
	OJI Title:  A Level-2 Trigger for Di-muon Measurements in the PHENIX at RHIC
Yong-Zhong Qian	Univ. of Minnesota	Theory	www.physics.umn.edu/~nucth/qian/qian.html
	OJI Title:  Nuclear Physics of Core -Collapse Supernovae
Dam Thanh Son	Columbia University	Theory	NA
	OJI Title:  Matter in Extreme Conditions

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