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Mid-Career Researcher Award

The Mid-Career Researcher Award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals. It is intended to honor an individual aged 40 to 52 at the time of nomination. Exceptions may be made for an interruption in career progression due to family or military service. The award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area.

Nomination deadline was August 2.

The Award

The annual award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy and a certificate. Meeting registration fee, transportation and hotel expenses to attend the MRS Spring Meeting at which the award is presented will be reimbursed.

Nomination Information

Nominations for the Mid-Career Researcher Award will be accepted from May 18 through August 2. Rules and eligibility, nomination package requirements and more are available here.

The Mid-Career Researcher Award is made possible through an endowment established by MilliporeSigma (Sigma-Aldrich Materials Science)

MilliporeSigma (Sigma-Aldrich Materials Science)

In this MRS TV interview from the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting, Molly Stevens, the 2022 MRS Mid-Career Research Award winner discusses her talk, titled "Designing Biomaterials to Repair the Body and Detect Diseases Earlier." The MRS Mid-Career Research Award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials science by my mid-career professionals and is intended to honor individuals between the ages of 40 - 52. Dr. Stevens was awarded this honor for innovative biosensing nanomaterials technologies for point-of-care disease diagnostics.

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Mid-Career Researcher Award Recipients

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"
Hongjie Dai, Stanford University (2016)

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