KU Physics and Astronomy Professor receives $1 million award from Department of Energy

The Department of Energy recently announced $36 million in awards to support energy-relevant research in underrepresented regions of America.  Almost $1 million of these funds are going to the University of Kansas research group of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Dmitry Ovchinnikov, for his research in engineering high-temperature magnetic quantum phases in atomically thin materials. Now in his third year at KU, this grant is a testament to the excellence of the research group Professor Ovchinnikov has established at KU, and to the overall quality of KU's condensed matter physics group. This grant represents the only award to a researcher in the state of Kansas from this program.