HUGS

The 2024 call is closed. Thank you to all the applicants.

We are proud to announce the 2024 HUGS International Fellowship for Graduate Students in Developing Countries supported by the JSA Initiatives Fund Program and US Department of Energy. This is the 8th edition of this program and under this fellowship we will be able to support the participation of up to two graduate students from developing countries who are well into their PhD dissertation research project to the 2024 Hampton University Graduate Summer (HUGS) program.

HUGS 2024 is a summer school designed for experimental and theoretical nuclear and particle physics graduate students who have finished their coursework and have at least one year of research experience in these fields. The school is expected to run from May 28 to June 14, 2024.

All the information on the 39th Anual Hampton University Graduate Summer (HUGS 2024) school can be found at the school webpage. Information on past editions of the school can be found at the HUGS archive.

The fellowship will fully cover travel expenses (including international airfare), room, and board. An additional visit of 1 or 2 weeks to Jefferson Lab may be possible, depending on funding, to meet with the laboratory researchers and users, and to initiate or strengthen a research collaboration. This visit will be discussed with the selected candidates, and is subject to availability of funds. For more information on Jefferson Lab research program please visit www.jlab.org/.

All the necessary information on Jefferson Lab can be found at its webpage. In particular, travel information can be found at the Visiting Jefferson Lab webpage. The selected students will need to arrange for a visa to enter in the USA. Jefferson Lab will provide the necessary invitation and visa application letters.

To apply, please fill the form at https://forms.office.com/e/C7YiTeDNQa.

The following documents are required:

1. Motivation letter, addressing the following issues:

- Research interests
- Financial need
- Connection of your research to Jefferson Lab
- How can you benefit the lab and how visiting HUGS/Jefferson Lab can benefit you

2. Resume, including the following:

- Contact information
- Country of residency, birth date and place of birth, and nationality
- Academic information
- Research experience
- Publication list

3. One recommendation letter, to be sent to César Fernández Ramírez (cesar@jlab.org) directly by the referee before the deadline. Recommendation letters provided directly by the applicants on behalf of the referees will not be accepted.

The motivation letter and the resume can be provided by email to César Fernández Ramírez (cesar@jlab.org) or through links to Google Drive/OneDrive/Box/Dropbox/... in the application form.

Before filling in the form, be sure to have ready all the documents and the information on the referee.

Applications received by 23:45 (US East Coast) January 20, 2024 will receive full consideration.

The applicants will be notified of the results as early as possible.

Applications are not considered complete until the recommendation letter is received

Please forward all queries to:

2024 HUGS International Fellowship for Graduate Students in Developing Countries
César Fernández-Ramírez (Fellowship manager)
E-mail: cesar@jlab.org

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The candidate(s) will be selected according to the following criteria:
1 - Financial need and PhD Institution in a developing country
2 - Worth and qualifications of the applicant
3 - Interest in pursuing nuclear physics of relevance to JLab and/or establishing ties and collaborations with JLab researchers

These will be evaluated based on:

(i)  the student's statement of motivation to attend HUGS, and
(ii) the requested letter of recommendation.

Selection Committee

Dr. César Fernández-Ramírez, Fellowship Manager, Distinguished Researcher (UNED)
Dr. Alberto Accardi, School Director, Associate Professor (Jefferson Lab and Hampton University)
Dr. Caroline Costa, Postdoctoral staff (Jefferson Lab)
Dr. Jose Goity, Professor (Jefferson Lab and Hampton University)
 

Map of Fellows

2024 Nisha Chahal (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India), Poonam Choudhary (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), Fabien Ebode (Near East University, North Cyprus), and Gustavo Paredes Torres (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico)

2023  Lucas Benasque Froguel (UNESP, Brazil), Maria Guadalupe Morales Trejo (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico), and Johan Colorado Caicedo (CINVESTAV, Mexico)

2022  Call cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021  Call cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2020  Stays cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vivian Luiz (Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo State University, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil), Satvir Kaur (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India), and Raj Kishore (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, ITT Bombay, Bombay, India)

2019  Hassnae El Jarrari (Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco) and Johann Edir Hernandez Ybarra (Universidad de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)

2018  Gustavo Adolfo Alcalá Escalona (Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela) and Paul Vaandrager (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)

2017  Estefanía Martínez Berrueta (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina), David Molina (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia), Yves Omon (University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon), and Esther Othieno (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya)

2016  Sokhna Bineta Lo Amar (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal) and Rajesh Sangem (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)

2015  Cintia Willemyns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

"The lectures in HUGS have been an extraordinary experience to get in contact with topics closely related to my line of work. On one hand, theoretical lectures where very thorough, so I could acquire concrete knowledge on other techniques used in Nonperturbative QCD. On the other hand, being a theoretical physicist, experimental lectures where enlightening, specially as they gave information on how some experimental results are obtained, thus providing an outline on how to appropriately make use of them. Contact with other students was also greatly appreciated and very beneficial as some interesting discussions arose during the three weeks of the School."

"Thanks to the lectures at HUGS and the discussions, this visit will enable me to stick to the deadline of my PhD defense. I strongly believe this experience will have a deep impact on my professional future. And due to the fact that I have no funding to cover any travel or lodging expenses, this experience would not have been possible without the full financial support from the JSA/HUGS Fellowship. Therefore, I am very grateful to have been given this very enriching opportunity."

"The lectures by the other eminent speakers opened new window with basic foundation to my future research interest. The interaction with fellow students was also greatly benefited me during three weeks of the school."

"The conferences in HUGS have been an extraordinary experience for me, and especially on the interactions of particles in the nucleus. We also visited different laboratories for measurements with equipment. The discussions were very interesting between the researchers and the Teachers during the three weeks of the school."

"Because of the lectures at HUGS and the discussions this visit enabled me to hold, both with students and specially with researchers working at the Jefferson Lab, I strongly believe this experience will have a deep impact on my professional future. And due to the fact that I have no funding to cover any travel or logging expenses this experience would not have been possible without the full financial support from the JSA/HUGS Fellowship. Therefore, I am very grateful to have been given this very enriching opportunity."

"In summary, all experience was completely useful and enriching for my career right now and the future, because allowed me to share with excellent researchers and outstanding students of all world and because was possible show my work in front of a lot of possibles futures collaborators. This kind of fellowships is the only way, for people of developing countries, for to go to this type of academics events. I hope, this scholarship goes on for other people in the next years. Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity."

This project is supported by the Initiatives Fund Program, a JSA commitment, to support programs, initiatives, and activities that further the scientific outreach, promote the science, education and technology of Jefferson Lab and benefit the Lab’s extended user community in ways that complement the Lab’s basic and applied research missions.

This project is also supported by the US Department of Energy through the Hampton University Graduate Summer (HUGS) program.