HPSTAR's PHILIP DALLADAY-SIMPSON to receive Jamieson Award

HPSTAR postdoctoral fellow PHILIP DALLADAY-SIMPSON will be given the prestigious Jamieson Award from the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology. The Jamieson Award is “bestowed to an early-career scientist who has just completed outstanding PhD thesis research or given a single exceptional contribution in the field of high-pressure research as a postdoc.” This medal is given biannually to just one person. The winner will be recognized as the single brightest young star during the two-year period by the highest authoritative high-pressure society.

Philip Dalladay-Simpson is a postdoctoral fellow at HPSTAR. He focuses his studies on static compression experiments of hydrogen and deuterium at high-pressure and temperature. During his PhD, Dr. Dalladay-Simpson compressed hydrogen up to record pressures and discovered a new phase (phase V) with behaviour suggestive of the onset of metallicity, a major breakthrough in hydrogen-research.

Dalladay-Simpson is being honored for his innovative work on hydrogen at extreme conditions, an incredibly challenging field due its inherent experimental difficulties.

Dalladay-Simpson will be presented the Jamieson Award at the AIRAPT 2017 conference in Beijing this August.

-----------------------------------------------

The International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology is also known as Association International pour L'Avancement de la Reserche et de la Technologie aux Hautes Pression (AIRAPT). The organization holds international conference every two years to promote high pressure science and technology.

John Calhoun Jamieson was Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago. The John C. Jamieson Memorial Fund supports the Award. Jamieson’s former students and colleagues established the fund managed by Bob Schock, a former postdoc of Jamieson and currently Director of the World Energy Council.