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Outstanding Young Investigator

View a report from this Award presentation from "The Meeting Scene."

The Outstanding Young Investigator Award has been established to recognize outstanding interdisciplinary materials research by a young scientist or engineer. The 2009 award was presented to Teri Odom of Northwestern University “for the development and characterization of nanoparticles and nanostructured arrays designed to filter and propagate plasmonic excitations with unprecedented control and sensitivity."

Teri Odom Northwestern University Talk Presentation:  Materials Screening and Applications of Quasi-3D Plasmonic Lattices

Teri W. Odom is an associate professor and Dow Chemical Company Research Professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering. She received her BS degree from Stanford University (1996) and her PhD from Harvard University (2001). She joined Northwestern in 2002, and was the inaugural recipient of the Dow Teacher-Scholar Award.

Odom has received a Research Innovation Award (Research Corporation, 2002), the Victor K. LaMer Award (ACS Surface Science and Colloids, 2003), and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award (2004). She was also named as one of MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Innovators in 2004. Odom is a David and Lucile Packard Fellow (2003), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2005), and a Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation (2005). In 2006, she was awarded the ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship and, in 2007, the Rohm and Haas New Faculty Award. Most recently, she was a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2008), and the ACS National Fresenius Award (2009).

Odom's research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nm scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. Specifically, she has developed multiscale nanoscale patterning tools that can generate new types of noble metal (plasmonic) structures able to manipulate light at the nanoscale. She has pioneered a new area called chemical nanofabrication, which combines chemistry and fabrication to assemble functional nanomaterials.