Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant Past Recipients

Congratulations to past recipients of the Early Career Postdoctural-Faculty Bridge Grant which provides a post-doctoral fellow/associate or faculty in first 9 months of appointment who plans to launch an independent research career in academia, funds to support a post-doctoral associate/fellow for two years once their new research group is launched.

2024 Recipients

Lauren Nicole Pincus
George Washington University
Title of Proposed Research: Fueling a circular economy: selective recovery of endangered elements from photovoltaic waste using ion-imprinted biopolymers

Heather O. LeClerc
Yale University
Title of Proposed Research: Enabling a Renewable Carbon-Based Economy by Unraveling Complex Organic Mixtures

Xiaohui Xu
Rowan University
Title of Proposed Research: Integrated Lithium Extraction and Water Recovery

Kelvin H. Bates
University of Colorado Boulder
Title of Proposed Research: Testing and Design of Atmospherically Benign Substitutes for Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Jesse Gordon
Harvard University
Title of Proposed Research: Sustainable Strategies for Radical Amination Catalysis

Michael Lawrence McGraw
University of Arkansas
Title of Proposed Research: A Sustainable Polyaddition Platform for Degradable Polyesters

Duhan Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title of Proposed Research: Transforming Tailings and low-grade ores into Green Steel and Rare Earth Concentrates: Achieving Zero Carbon Emissions and Waste

2023 Recipients

Neil Dolinski
Columbia University
Title of Proposed Research: Enhancing Plastic Waste Recycling with Reconfigurable Dynamic Polymers

Bryan James
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title of Proposed Research: The Rational Design of Nucleic Acids for Use as Multifunctional, Green Additives in Next-Generation Plastics  

Jun Hee Jang
Rowan University
Title of Proposed Research: Product Circulation Strategy for Enhanced Economics and Sustainability in Biorefineries of Waste Resources 

Houqian Li
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Proposed Research: Tuning Chain Length of Alkenes in Plastic Oil with Catalytic Metathesis  

Arthur J. Shih
Northwestern University
Title of Proposed Research: Electrochemical Refinement of Recycled Iron via Selective Copper Dissolution

Katherine Shulenberger
Brandeis University
Title of Proposed Research: Heavy Metal-Free Nanocrystals for Clean Energy Generation