Nina McClelland Memorial Award Past Recipients

Congratulations to past recipients of the Nina McClelland Memorial Award, which sponsors the participation of postdoctoral scholars from both U.S. and international institutions to attend the annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and present their work in a talk or poster.

Please read the award announcement for the 2025 winners published in The Nexus blog: 2025 Green Chemistry Award Winners Announced

2025 Recipients

Christopher Koch, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

Xin Liu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

2024 Recipients

Thomas Auvray, University of Birmingham, UK

Xin Liu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Switzerland

2023 Recipients

Shivali Banerjee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research: Green process for enhanced recovery of anthocyanins as valuable co-products from bioenergy crops in a biorefinery

Liwei Ye, Northwestern University
Research: Rationally tailored catalysts for highly efficient chemical recycling of nylon-6 and for achieving a circular economy towards end-of-life plastics.

2022 Recipients

Juliana Vidal, McGill University
Research Focus: Valorization of crustacean waste into value-added products using methods such as mechanochemistry.

Vinod Landge, University of Toledo
Research Focus: Transition metal-catalyzed regioselective functionalization of alkenyl amines.