FACULTY AWARD: De Leon receives U.S. Air Force Young Investigator award

Nathalie de Leon, a Princeton University assistant professor of electrical engineering, was one of 58 scientists and engineers nationwide to receive a Young Investigator Research Program award through the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. De Leon received a three-year grant for her project, "Systematic Search for New Color Centers in Diamond for Quantum Technologies." The young-investigator program funds work by promising researchers in the United States who received a Ph.D. or equivalent in the past five years.