Albion Lawrence a member of the Quantum and Gravitational Theory Group is one of the seven (7) researchers drawn from education institutions across the US that constitute the first class of Pivot Fellowship announced by the foundation on Wednesday.
Pivot Fellowship is a programme that is design to promote and fund researchers in education institutions who move into new fields of studies, helping them to accelerate the process by removing the hindrances associated with moving. It focus on the scientists in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, computer science, mathematics and data science.
As a Pivot Fellow, Albion Lawrence will receive a year mentoring, salary, research and professional development funding. He is also eligible to apply for a three (3) year research award in new field worth $1.5million after fellowship.
Professor Albion research interest is in the area of theoretical physics, quantum field theory, string theory and their applications to cosmology. He recently move focus on problems that has to do with physical oceanography, physics of climate and geographical fluid dynamics.
According to Simon Foundation, Jörn Callies of the California Institute of Technology is Professor Albion mentor during fellowship and both will study higher-order statistics of ocean turbulence and of internal waves via satellite altimetry to give us deeper insight into the nature of ocean turbulence and of the internal wave field across scales thereby given us tools to free different types of ocean dynamics which have very different properties with respect to the transport of important physical properties, chemical substances and biological organisms.
Albion Lawrence is a professor of physics at Brandeis University. He obtained his PhD in physics in 1996 from The University of Chicago. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University from 1996–1999. His bachelor’s degree in physics was done at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991.
Jörn Callies will receive the sum of $50,000 at the end of fellowship.
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