UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (WCIA) — A UI physics professor is the key organizer in the National Science Foundation’s latest launch of a $25 million software-focused institute.

Professor Mark Neubauer is part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and educators from more than a dozen universities. Neubauer was one of three key members to develop the proposal and secure NSF funding.

The Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High-Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) was announced Tuesday as being developed to “tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the high-luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator located at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.”