Physics professor Oana Jurchescu brings first NSF Special Creativity award to WFU

A team of researchers at Wake Forest University, the University of Kentucky and Princeton University have received a rare and coveted National Science Foundation Special Creativity extension for their current grant. This award allows the group to take on high-risk, high-reward opportunities in electronic materials. Physics professor Oana Jurchescu leads the Wake Forest effort.

Only a very small number of NSF grants are awarded a Special Creativity extension. Jurchescu is the first WFU faculty member to receive this award. Special Creativity extension recipients are expected to transform their field.

The award provides 18-months of continued funding for a collaborative research project called OSCAR (Organic Semiconductors by Computation on the Accelerated Refinement) through the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future program. The mission of OSCAR is to develop methods for design of organic semiconductors that will shorten the path from concept to commercialization for optoelectronic materials and devices.

Read more on the Wake Forest University news website.