Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program Recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 recipients of the ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program. We are proud to recognize the talented graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in:
- Mentoring
- Promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect
- Promotion of Research Safety
Visit the ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program page to learn more about the program and criteria for nominations.

At the ACS 2023 Fall Meeting, some of the recipients joined us at the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Recognition Program luncheon.
Leadership in Mentoring
This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts and impact in research and safety mentoring, broadly defined. Mentoring may involve peers in their own research group as well as outside groups, undergraduate/high school researchers, and participants in short-term research programs (e.g. summer programs, REUs, international exchanges).
Graduate Student Recipients
Aceer Nadeem
University of Rhode Island
Benjamin Shindel
Northwestern University
Cholpisit Kiattisewee
University of Washington
Christine Stephen
University of California, San Diego
CJ Koch
University of Southern California
Dhivya Meganathan
University of California, San Diego
Emerson MacNeil
Queen's University
Emmanuel Ohaekenyem
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka
Hui Yan Kuang
Northeastern University
Ina Zaimi
University of Michigan
Josephine Jayworth
Yale University
Ke Zhao
University of California, Santa Barbara
Meranda Masse
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nory Marino-Ocampo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Paige Bowling
The Ohio State University
Palak Sondhi
University Of Missouri, Saint Louis
Sevde Dogruer Erkok
Florida International University
Shruthi Perna
Middle Tennessee State University
Thivani Senathiraja
Iowa State University
Tiffany Sill
Texas A&M University, College Station
Vanessa Mariscal
University of California, Santa Cruz
Postdoctoral Scholar Recipients
Abhishek Kadam
University of Rochester
Goonay Yousefalizadeh
Queen's University
Indrajit Srivastava
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mina Mozafari
University of California, Irvine
Stephen DiLuzio
Northeastern University
Tam'ra-Kay Francis
University of Washington
Leadership in the Promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect
This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect in the program. Activities may include participation in recruitment to enhance diversity, engagement in impactful conversations that strengthen the culture of inclusivity, and efforts to identify and eliminate inequities in the department/institution-wide.
Graduate Student Recipients
Alejandro Burgos-Suazo
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
Alex Grooms
The Ohio State University
Arman Garcia
University of Oregon
Brandi James
University of Cincinnati
Caitlin Lichtenfels
University of Minnesota
Danniel Arriaga
Texas A&M University, College Station
Eleanor Stewart-Jones
Yale University
Emma Cave
University of Washington
Georges Leconte
University of California, San Diego
Jasmyn Genchev
Northeastern University
Jessica Torres
Purdue University
Kevin Rivera Cruz
University of Michigan
Madison Wong
University of California, Santa Barbara
Medina Afandiyeva
University of Rochester
Parimah Aminfar
Queen's University
Stacey Jones
Emory University
Stephanie Oliveras Santos
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tania Evans
Georgia Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Scholar Recipients
Debika Datta
University of California, San Diego
Ellen Song
University of Pennsylvania
Leadership in the Promotion of Research Safety
This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts to promote safety in research environments, broadly defined. Activities may include exemplary service as a safety officer, participation in efforts to enhance safety culture and awareness, and leadership in promoting safety in areas outside of the wet laboratory, including safety issues associated with computational and theoretical chemistry.
Graduate Student Recipients
Adekunle Omoboye
Queen's University
Ann Marie May
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Brandon Miller
Northeastern University
Brayley Soleil Gattis
Northwestern University
Christopher Woodley
University of Michigan
Elizabeth Piedmont
University of Rochester
Hossain Shadman
University of Memphis
Jessica Freeze
Yale University
Joseph Holbrook
The Ohio State University
Joshua Powell
Texas A&M University, College Station
Rain Talosig
University of California, Irvine
Samantha Kruse
University of California, San Diego
Postdoctoral Scholar Recipients
Anne-Lise Marie
Northeastern University
Kang Chen
Capitol Technology University
Naresh Murty Venneti
Wayne State University