Kenny Ng to join GRAPPA on a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

We will welcome Kenny Ng to GRAPPA later this year, who has been awarded, together with ten talented researchers, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The awarded projects include research on public support for different interpretations of ‘Social Europe’, the transmission of pathogens from animals to humans and metaphorical narratives in discourses on dementia. The awarded fellowships range from 175,000 to 280,000 euros. The grants are awarded as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which forms part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The aim of the fellowship is to equip researchers with the necessary skills and international experience to pursue a successful career.

Kenny Ng’s research will be on understanding the peculiar gamma-ray emission of the sun. With space telescopes, we only recently gained the sensitivity to precisely study the gamma rays from the Sun, presumably caused by energetic cosmic particles (cosmic rays) bombarding the Sun. Surprisingly, many properties of these gamma rays are not yet explained. Kenny Chun Yu Ng plans to understand them through new observational and theoretical investigations, which will ultimately help us better understand the Sun itself and the solar system space environment.

Kenny Ng will collaborate with Dr Shin’ichiro Ando here at GRAPPA.