Perimeter Institute congratulates Faculty members Dmitry Abanin, Davide Gaiotto, Natalia Toro, and Xiao-Gang Wen, and Associate Faculty members Matthew Johnson, Sung-Sik Lee, and Roger Melko, who received grants totalling $1.79 million (over three- to five-year terms).

In addition to their core grants, two Perimeter faculty members received Discovery Accelerator Supplements, valued at $120,000 over three years: Wen, for his program on “Highly Entangled Quantum Matter,” and Gaiotto, for his program, “Investigations in quantum field theory.”

The supplements provide additional resources to exceptionally promising researchers to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research programs; less than 10 percent of Discovery Grant recipients received Accelerator Supplements in 2013.

Johnson also received an Early Career Supplement, given to researchers within two years of their first eligible research position, for his research proposal, “The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions.”

The Discovery Grants Program is NSERC’s largest and longest-running program, which supports long-term research programs, while allowing researchers the flexibility to explore promising research avenues as they emerge. Grants are awarded following a national, peer-reviewed process to evaluate applications based on (i) the excellence of the researcher, (ii) the merit of their research proposal, and (iii) their achievements in, and plans for, research training.

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