Omololu Akin-Ojo
EAIFR
The U.S.– Africa Initiative in Electronic Structure (USAfrI) aims to create a platform for exchange between African and U.S. physicists with opportunities to have a major impact on research and education in Africa.
The U.S.-Africa Initiative in Electronic Structure is supported by of the Innovation Fund of the American Physical Society: Announcement of the USAPS Innovation Fund: Inaugural Winners Selected, August/September 2019 (Volume 28, Number 8)
USAfrI events are co-organized with the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research and Columbia University and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics with Materials Science and Engineering
USAfri is also supported by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Physics Department in the Grainger College of Engineering.
The USAfrica Initiative Project Leaders are:
Omololu Akin-Ojo (EAIFR) is a condensed matter physicist from Nigeria and directs the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research .
Sinead Griffin
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Sinead Griffin is a Staff Scientist and leads a research group based in Materials Science Division and Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.
Richard Martin
University of Illinois and Stanford University
Richard Martin is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Illinois and a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University.
Renata Wentzcovitch
Renata Wentzcovitch (Columbia University) is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
Additional Support
Amy Young was Communicators Director for the US-Africa Initiative fr 2021-2023, providing experience working with summer schools and other programs specifically related to support electronic structure research internationally.
2021-2022 Advisory Board
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Gboyega Adebayo | Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta |
| Stephon Alexander | Brown University & National Society of Black Physicists |
| George Amolo | Technical University of Kenya |
| Mark Casida | Universite Grenoble-Alpes |
| Maria Chan | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Samuel Chigome | Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation |
| Valentino Cooper | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Lesley Cornish | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| Michel Côté | Université de Montréal |
| Gebremedhn Gebreyesus | University of Ghana |
| James Gubernatis | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Matthew Horton | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/UC Berkeley |
| Steve Kevan | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Malik Maaza | iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS) |
| Neepa Maitra | Rutgers University at Newark |
| Mark Pederson | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| Warren Pickett | University of California, Davis |
| David Prendergast | Molecular Foundry,Berkeley Lab |
| Andrew Rappe | University of Pennsylvania |
| Richard Scalettar | University of California, Davis |
| Winston Wole Soboyejo | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Hulda Swai | The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) |
| Hisham Widatallah | Sultan Qaboos University |
| Valentino Cooper | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Lesley Cornish | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| Michel Côté | Université de Montréal |
| Gebremedhn Gebreyesus | University of Ghana |
| James Gubernatis | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Matthew Horton | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/UC Berkeley |
| Steve Kevan | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Malik Maaza | iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS) |
| Neepa Maitra | Rutgers University at Newark |
| Mark Pederson | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| Warren Pickett | University of California, Davis |
| David Prendergast | Molecular Foundry,Berkeley Lab |
| Andrew Rappe | University of Pennsylvania |
| Richard Scalettar | University of California, Davis |
| Winston Wole Soboyejo | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Hulda Swai | The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) |
| Hisham Widatallah | Sultan Qaboos University |
| Valentino Cooper | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Lesley Cornish | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| Michel Côté | Université de Montréal |
| Gebremedhn Gebreyesus | University of Ghana |
| James Gubernatis | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Matthew Horton | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/UC Berkeley |
| Steve Kevan | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Malik Maaza | iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS) |
| Neepa Maitra | Rutgers University at Newark |
| Mark Pederson | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| Warren Pickett | University of California, Davis |
| David Prendergast | Molecular Foundry,Berkeley Lab |
| Andrew Rappe | University of Pennsylvania |
| Richard Scalettar | University of California, Davis |
| Winston Wole Soboyejo | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Hulda Swai | The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) |
| Hisham Widatallah | Sultan Qaboos University |