Prof. Ulrich Heinz will be collaborating with Jorge Jose Leite Noronha Junior at Instituto de Fisica/USP on a grant entitled: “A state-of-the-art description of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma using viscous relativistic hydrodynamics and the gauge/gravity duality”.

FAPESP will provide funding of up to the equivalent to US$10,000 per proposal and per year and OSU will provide funding of up to US$10,000 per proposal and per year, for the period established in the award, to cover reasonable research-related expenses including mobility expenses, of researchers and fellows.

Ohio State University and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) will build upon existing partnerships and collaborate in new ways, as a result of the Scientific Cooperation Agreement that was signed last March to support research and innovation. The agreement called for Ohio State and FAPESP to each contribute $700,000 to begin a five-year program. For more on this partnership click here.

A call for proposals was issued to encourage the formation of research collaborations. Researchers from any department and discipline affiliated with Ohio State and the Higher Education Research Institutions in the State of São Paulo were invited to submit collaborative proposals. Thirty-eight proposals, representing a wide range of disciplines, were received. Following a competitive review process coordinated by FAPESP and Ohio State, 24 proposals have been selected for funding. These awards represent seed funding, with a goal of securing additional support from funding agencies in the U.S. and Brazil.

Ohio State plans to open its next global gateway in São Paulo in 2014 with an aim to establish deeper and broader academic, alumni and corporate partnerships in Brazil. The gateway’s goal of facilitating research collaborations between Ohio State and Brazilian scholars will benefit significantly from the Ohio State-FAPESP agreement, according to vice provost William Brustein.

Congratulations to Professor Heinz on this award.