The NRF Fellowship Scheme operated by the National Research Foundation aims to develop a strong science research programme in Singapore and seek to attract, develop and outstanding young scientists. The MSE department has been particularly successful in scouting NRF fellows, which are:
NRF Fellow Assistant Professor, Benjamin C.K. Tee, CLASS 2017
Nature-inspired digital devices and networks for multi-scale environment sensing
Web-site: www.benjamintee.com
NRF Fellow Assistant Professor, Qian HE, CLASS 2019
Electron Microscopy for Catalyst Discovery and Innovation
Web-site: www.heqian.org
NRF Fellow Assistant Professor, Pieremanuele Canepa, CLASS 2020
Designing Functional Interfaces of Batteries Using Theory and Computation
Web-site: www.caneparesearch.org
NRF Investigator Associate Professor, Qing Wang, CLASS 2018
“E-blood”: Simultaneous Powering and Cooling of Microchips for Energy Resilient and Power Efficient Computing
Web-site: http://www.dmse.nus.edu.sg/wq/Group_Homepage/Home.html
NRF Investigator and Fellow, Professor, and Head of Department Barbaros Özyilmaz
Web-site: https://2dmaterials.nus.edu.sg/barbaros/
Each NRF fellow receives a sizeable research grant to carry out independent research in projects which exhibit high likelihood of a research breakthrough over a 5-year period.