Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant Past Recipients

Congratulations to past recipients of the Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant which听provides听funding to early or mid-career investigators (Associate+) to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution, with the goal of establishing robust collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines and taking advantage of the mentorship of a faculty member distinct from their prior mentors.

2024 Recipients

Dr. Grace Wan-Ting Chen,听University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sabbatical Host Institution: Woods Hole Oceanography Institution (WHOI)
Title of Proposed Research:听Bio-Inspired Optimization for Microbial-Assisted Plastic Recycling and Pollution Mitigation in Aquatic Ecosystems (BIO-MAP)

Dr. Milad Abolhasani,听North Carolina State Univerity
Sabbatical Host Institution: ETH Zurich听
Title of Proposed Research:听A Sustainable Research Acceleration Framework for CO2 Photoreduction Using Self-Driving Labs

Dr. Carla Ng,听University of Pittsburgh
Sabbatical Host Institution: University of Toronto
Title of Proposed Research: Unlocking Safer Alternatives: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Thermodynamics for More Sustainable Molecular Design

2023 Recipients

Dr. Ambarish Kulkarni,听University of California, Davis
Sabbatical Host Institution: Technical University of Denmark
Title of Proposed Research: Revolutionizing the Transportation Industry Using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers

Dr. Nicola H. Perry,听University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sabbatical Host Institution: Imperial College London听
Title of Proposed Research:听Visualizing Nanoscale 3D Ion and Defect Chemical Kinetics in Sustainable Energy Materials and Devices: Advancing Tandem Isotope Exchange Tomography and Spectrometry

Dr. Yujie Sun,听University of Cincinnati
Sabbatical Host Institution: Princeton University
Title of Proposed Research:听Developing Green Electro/Photo-Enzymatic Catalysis for Sustainable Organic Synthesis

Dr. Christopher Wirth,听Case Western Research University
Sabbatical Host Institution: Dow Chemical Company
Title of Proposed Research:听Sustainable Formulation of Packaging Materials: Films, Packaging, and Coatings

Dr. Yang Yang,听University of California, Santa Barbara
Sabbatical Host Institution: Genentech, Inc.
Title of Proposed Research:听Sustainable Photobiocatalytic Synthesis of Non-Canonical Amino Acids Under Continuous Flow Conditions