Emerging investigators in materials science 2017–2018

Mentoring translational science investigators.

A PRIMARY MISSION OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF Health(NIH)istotrainthenextgenerationofclinical/ translational scientists. The NIH K-series training grantsare3to5-yearawards thatprovideprotected time (up to 75% salary support) and research funding (up to $50 000peryear)tonewinvestigatorsfollowingfellowshiptrainingtopreparethemforR01-levelfunding.ExamplesofKawards include individualawardssuchasK...

Contributors to the Emerging Investigators

This is the first time that Lab on a Chip has put together an issue that features the younger members of the community that are potential rising stars. We often hear the opinions of supervisors and leaders in the field, but rarely do we hear the voices of students, post-docs or young researchers. Therefore we decided to elicit the opinions of these emerging investigators on issues of current co...

Machine Learning in Materials Science: Recent Progress and Emerging Applications

Contributors to the emerging investigators issue 2018.

Randolph S. Ashton is an Assistant Professor at UW–Madison’s Biomedical Engineering Department and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. He earned his BS and PhD in chemical engineering from Hampton University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively, and performed postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley. His lab melds advanced biomaterial design and neural stem cell biology to develop novel...

Is science driven by principal investigators?

In this paper we consider the question what is the scientific and career performance of principal investigators (PIs) of publicly funded research projects compared to scientific performance of all researchers. Our study is based on high quality data about (i) research projects awarded in Slovenia in the period 1994–2016 (7508 projects with 2725 PIs in total) and (ii) about scientific productivi...