Awards
de Leon Group
Princeton University

- Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing from the American Physical Society (APS) (2023)
Jared Rovny (Postdoc)
- Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023)
Freedman Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dane Johnson (Graduate student)
- Honorable mentions for the NSF-GR Fellowship Program (2021)
Mak Kirkman-Davis (Graduate student)
- Honorable mentions for the NSF-GR Fellowship Program (2021)
- Arnold O. Beckman post-doctoral Fellowship (2020)
Fuchs Group
Cornell University
- CMQT He-3 cryostat was installed at Cornell (September 2021)
- Appointed James R. Meehl Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics (2025)
- Cornell Engineering Outstanding Research Award (2020)
Goldsmith Group
University of Wisconsin Madison
Randall Goldsmith (PI)
Alex Fairhall (Graduate student)- KV Reddy for Excellence in Physical Chemistry Research (2025)
- NDSEG graduate fellowship
Evan Smith (Graduate student)
- Malcolm Williams Award for Research (2025)
Hersam Group
Northwestern University
Mark Hersam (PI)
- Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2024)
- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024)
- Elected to National Academy of Engineering (2024)
- Mid-Career Research Award from Materials Research Society (2024)
- AAAFM Stoddart Award (August 2021)
- Fellow of the American Chemical Society (July 2021)
- AVS Medard W. Welch Award (October 2020)
- CAS Future Leaders (2025)
- IIN Outstanding Researcher Visionary Award (2023)
- IIN Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023)
- Foresight Institute Fellow in Molecular Machines (2023)
- APS Career Mentoring Fellow (2022)
- APS DMP Postdoctoral Travel Award (2022)
Anushka Dasgupta (Graduate student)
- Terminal Year Fellowship (2023)
Riddhi Ananth (Graduate student)
- Ryan Fellowship (2023)
- Hierarchical Materials Cluster Program Fellowship (2021)
Long Group
University of California Berkeley
Jeffrey Long (PI)
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
- Named the C. Judson King Distinguished Professor (2022)
- Cheetham Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara (2022)
- Miller Research Professor, UC Berkeley (2021-2022)
- Malcom H. Chisholm Lecturer, The Ohio State University (2021)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Award (2020)
Matthew Dickson (Graduate student)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021)
Kennedy McCone (Graduate student)
- Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2021)
- Graduate Research Fellowship (2021)
Ryan Murphy (Graduate student)
- Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network Fellowship (2020)
Danh Ngo (Graduate student)
- Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network Fellowship (2020)
Schatz Group
Northwestern University
George Schatz (PI)
- Nieuwland Lecture, University of Notre Dame (2024)
- Schaad Lecture, Vanderbilt University (2024)
- Flygare Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana (2023)
- Marsha I. Lester Award, ACS Physical Chemistry Division (2023)
- Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society (2022)
- Harrison Shull Lecture, Indiana University (2022)
- Nakamoto Lecture, Marquette University (2022)
- Max T. Rogers Lecture, Michigan State University (2021, 2022)
- Forum of Great Minds Seminar, USTC (2020)
- Top influential chemist (ranked 8th worldwide) (2010-2020)
Subhajyoti Chaudhuri (Postdoc)
Stern Group
Northwestern University
Sarah Carin Gavin (Graduate student)
- Ovshinsky Student Travel Award (2025)
Tempelaar Group
Northwestern University
Roel Tempelaar (PI)
- Sloan Research Fellow (2025)
- ACS COMP OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2024)
- Group was awarded the NSF CAREER Award (February 2022)
Andrew Salij (Graduate student)
- Second Poster Prize winner at Chirality (2022)
Wasielewsi Group
Northwestern University
Michael Wasielewski (PI)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Lectureship Prize (2022)
- Hinshelwood Lecturer, University of Oxford, (2022)
- Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, (2022)
- Inaugural Guilford Jones Lecturer, Boston University, (2022)
- Bergman Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, (2021)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (2021)
- Royal Society of Chemistry, Bruker Prize in EPR Spectroscopy (2021)
- Josef Michl American Chemical Society Award in Photochemistry (2020)
Samuel Tyndall (Graduate student)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
Jonathan Palmer (Graduate student)
- Robert L. Burwell Jr. Fellowship (2024)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
Paige Brown (Graduate student)
- Robert L. Burwell Jr. Fellowship (2023)
Emmaline Lorenzo (Graduate student)
- Gelewitz Award (2023)
James O'Connor (Graduate student)
- ACS Leader Scholar (2024)
Hannah Eckvahl (Graduate student)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Nanoscale Award (2024)
Weiss Group
Northwestern University
David D. Xu (Graduate student)
- Ryan Fellowship at Northwestern University (For outstanding graduate students dedicated to the exploration of fundamental nanoscale science) (August 2022)
Zhou Group
University of California San Diego
Joel Yuen Zhou (PI)
- Isaiah Shavitt Lectureship (Technion) (2024)
-
Nanophotonics Early Career Award (2023)
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award (2022)
- W.M. Keck Foundation Research Grant (2021)
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (2021)
- Sloan Fellowship Award (2021)
- Finalist in the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists (2020)