November 2020:

IIP student Sayomi Kamimoto got awarded COS Outstanding student award given to only two COS graduating students each term and a prestigious National Research Council Associate Fellowship. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Fellowships Office has conducted the NRC Research Associateship Programs in cooperation with sponsoring federal laboratories and other research organizations approved for participation since 1954. Through national competitions, the Fellowships Office recommends and makes NRC Research Associateship awards to outstanding postdoctoral and senior scientists and engineers for tenure as guest researchers at participating laboratories.

Sayomi has spent part of her time in the last 2.5 years of her studies collaborating with Ira Schwartz, who is the head of nonlinear dynamics section at plasma physics division of NRL. She has graduated in Fall 2020 with a record number of publications and is starting her NRC postdoctoral research associateship tenure at NRL in January 2021.