CIERA graduate student Nicole Flors was awarded a prestigious Computational Science Graduate Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The fellowship is designed to support Ph.D. students using high-performance computing to address complex problems in science and engineering. Along with financial support, the fellowship provides research opportunities at DOE facilities nationwide and a robust program of study to help fellows enhance their skills.
“I am incredibly honored to accept this fellowship, which will allow me to use high-performance computing to explore exciting new physics,” says Flors. “I am deeply grateful to my past and present mentors, family, and friends, who have always pushed me to do my best, supported me through successes and failures, and encouraged my dream of contributing to science.”
Nicole leverages state-of-the-art simulations to study the fluid dynamics around neutron stars and black holes in curved spacetime in Prof. Sasha Tchekhovskoy’s group.
Nicole Flors is an astronomy PhD candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics (CIERA). She is advised by Professor Sasha Tchekhovskoy.