Former Postdoc Noa Marom Wins International Young Scientist Prize

Former Oden Institute Postdoctoral Researcher Noa Marom won the 2018 Young Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

The annual prize recognizes a "principal performer of original work of outstanding scientific quality in computational physics."

Marom worked at the institute from 2010-2013 with Professor Jim Chelikowsky in computational materials.

Prior to her time at the institute, Marom earned a B.A. in Physics and a B.S. in Materials Engineering, both Cum Laude, from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in 2003. From 2002 to 2004 she worked as an Application Engineer in the Process Development and Control Division of Applied Materials. In 2010 she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She was awarded the Shimon Reich Memorial Prize of Excellence for her thesis.

After leaving the institute, from 2013 to 2016 she was an assistant professor in the Physics and Engineering Physics (PEP) Department at Tulane University. In 2016 she joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor. She has also recently received the Sanibel Symposium Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Charles E. Kaufman New Investigator Award.

The goal of her research is to computationally design materials with desired properties for target applications.