Carlos Garcia-Cervera, associate professor of mathematics, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is the sixth UCSB faculty member to receive the award this year, and his is the first CAREER award to a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics.

These awards provide a minimum of $400,000 in support over five years. Garcia-Cervera plans to use the award to work on multiscale modeling of solids, in the context of density functional theory.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.

NSF explains that CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative proposals that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. The plans are expected to build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.

The other previously announced UCSB recipients of the NSF CAREER award for 2007 are: Song-I Han, Todd H. Oakley, Volkan Rodoplu, Todd Squires, and Tommaso Treu.