Rui Ni Receives the Moore Foundation Grant to Fund Turbulence Research
Supported by a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation‘s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative, Rui Ni, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and researcher at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, will reproduce these electrified storms in his lab. His goal is to understand how chaotic air movement in storms—called background turbulence—influences the formation and behavior of lightning.
Please join us in congratulating Rui in his achievement.