The National Science Foundation (NSF)
has selected F. Fleming Crim to serve as assistant director for the Directorate
of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS). Crim will lead a staff of 160 and
an annual budget of $1.3 billion. MPS supports core research in astronomy,
chemistry, physics, material science and mathematics
Currently, Crim is the John E. Willard
and Hilldale Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research group uses lasers to understand chemical
reaction dynamics occurring in gases and in liquids.
"Dr. Crim will lead a directorate
that has diverse and robust investments in fundamental research," said NSF
Director Subra Suresh. "We greatly look forward to his contributions to
NSF. We have tremendous confidence in his ability to keep MPS and the agency at
the cutting edge of research and technology in the 21st century."
The scope of scientific and educational
activity supported in MPS is enormous, ranging from phenomena at cosmological
distances, to chemistry of life processes, through quantum mechanical processes
in atomic and subatomic physics, to nanomaterials, to mathematics. MPS funds
the operations and management of 14 major multi-user facilities, allowing
thousands of scientists and students to press the bounds of scientific
knowledge, and to invest in potential future projects needed to remain at the
cutting-edge of research. MPS provides about 51 percent of the federal funding
for basic research at academic institutions in the mathematical and physical
sciences.
Crim has lectured around the world and
published more than 150 papers. He received his bachelor's degree from
Southwestern University and his doctorate from Cornell University. His research
and teaching have earned many awards throughout his career. These include the
Plyler Prize of the American Physical Society, the Langmuir Award of the
American Chemical Society, and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of
Chemistry (London).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical
Research Society of India and an Honorary Professor of the Dalian Institute of
Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Crim is a member of both the National
Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Crim will begin his NSF appointment in
January 2013.
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