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.
Submit a Nomination
Nominations are accepted through August 2.
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.
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)
"For innovative biosensing nanomaterials technologies for point-of-care disease diagnostics"
“For pioneering contributions and conceptual developments to organic electronics and skin-inspired electronics”
“For contributions to rational design and assembly of layered materials for electronic, photonic and energy devices”
“For outstanding contributions in nanoparticle self-assembly of functional nanomaterials and for leadership within the materials community"
"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"
"For creating a new theoretical framework describing multiferroics and for service to the materials community"
“For seminal contributions to carbon-based nanoscience and applications in nanoelectronics, renewable energy, and biological systems"
“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"
“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”
“For fundamental and applied contributions to materials, mechanics designs, and assembly techniques for stretchable/flexible electronic systems”
"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”
"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”