Two Washington University in St. Louis researchers will advance the scientific frontier as 2022 Experimental Physics Investigators with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics, and Kater Murch, professor of physics, both in Arts & Sciences, will each receive $1.25 million for their projects over the next five years. They were selected from a competitive nationwide pool of applicants.
Henriksen and Murch join 14 other investigators in the first cohort of the Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Initiative, according to an Oct. 27 announcement. This funding is envisioned to allow the physicists, during some of their most creative years, to concentrate on their research and build collaborative relationships that enable innovative discoveries.
“The breadth and scientific audacity of experiments proposed by these individuals is stunning and inspiring,” said Theodore Hodapp, program director in the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative at the Moore Foundation. “Stunning, as well, is the creativity and the capability of these scientists.”
“Erik Henriksen and I started our groups at Washington University at the same time in 2013. We’ve become fast friends and close collaborators as our groups have grown and our research interests have intertwined,” Murch said. “It’s an incredible honor that we both have been awarded this prestigious opportunity.”
