Mid-Career Researcher Award

Mid-Career Researcher Award Recipients

• Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern University (2024)

  "For pioneering contributions to the synthesis, purification, functionalization, and application of low-dimensional nanoelectronic materials and mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures"

• George Malliaras, University of Cambridge (2023)

  "For outstanding contributions to the fundamentals and development of organic electronic materials and their application in biology and medicine."

• Molly Stevens, Imperial College London (2022)

  "For innovative biosensing nanomaterials technologies for point-of-care disease diagnostics"

   

   

   

• Zhenan Bao, Stanford University (2021)

  “For pioneering contributions and conceptual developments to organic electronics and skin-inspired electronics”
  
  
  

• Xiangfeng Duan, University of California, Los Angeles (2020)

  “For contributions to rational design and assembly of layered materials for electronic, photonic and energy devices”
  
  
  

• Hongyou Fan, Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico (2019)

  “For outstanding contributions in nanoparticle self-assembly of functional nanomaterials and for leadership within the materials community"
  
  
  

• David Mooney, Harvard University (2018)

  "For pioneering contributions to the field of biomaterials, especially in the incorporation of biological design principles into materials and the use of biomaterials in mechanobiology, tissue engineering and therapeutics"
  
  
  

• Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich (2017)

  "For creating a new theoretical framework describing multiferroics and for service to the materials community"
  
  
  

• Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado Boulder (2012)

  "Exceptional achievement at the interface of materials and biology enabling new, functional biomaterials that answer fundamental questions in biology and yield advances in regenerative medicine, stem-cell differentiation, and cancer treatment”
  
  
  

• John A. Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013)

  “For fundamental and applied contributions to materials, mechanics designs, and assembly techniques for stretchable/flexible electronic systems”
   
   
   

• Lei Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014)

  “For establishing fundamental understanding of the interfacial properties of biological systems and transforming that insight into commercialized bioinspired materials with properties better than those of natural systems”
   
   
   

• Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology (2015)

  “For establishing fundamental relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their optical and electronic properties, thereby profoundly impacting how the scientific community designs optimized molecular structures for use in nonlinear optical applications"
   
   
  

• Hongjie Dai, Stanford University (2016)

  “For seminal contributions to carbon-based nanoscience and applications in nanoelectronics, renewable energy, and biological systems"