March 3, 2003

Velev Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Velev (Photo: Herman Lankford)

Dr. Orlin D. Velev, assistant professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2003, to run through February 29, 2008.  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to tenure-track university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $405,283 in funding over the next five years.  Velev will use the award to support his research project entitled, “Colloidal Assembly and Transport Using Dielectrophoresis and Novel Media.”

Velev’s research interests include colloid science and engineering, assembly of nano- and microstructures with photonic, optical and electrical functionality and biosensors. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at NC State in August 2001.

Velev received his master’s in chemical physics and theoretical chemistry in 1989 and his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1996 from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

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