Vikram Gavini

Since 2014, MICDE has offered top-off fellowships to current and prospective students whose research project involves the use and advancement of scientific computing techniques and practices

Gavini is recognized "for pioneering work developing multi-scale methods for density-functional theory calculations at continuum scales, electronic structure studies on defects in materials, and quantum transport in materials"

Approximately 72 students — from a variety of disciplines — receive this fellowship

This program is open to scientists and engineers at research institutions across the US who received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research

Winning the Humboldt Research Fellowship requires an established international reputation for research of the highest caliber