Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant Past Recipients
Congratulations to past recipients of the Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant which provides funding to early or mid-career investigators (Associate+) to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution, with the goal of establishing robust collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines and taking advantage of the mentorship of a faculty member distinct from their prior mentors.
2024 Recipients
Dr. Grace Wan-Ting Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sabbatical Host Institution: Woods Hole Oceanography Institution (WHOI)
Title of Proposed Research: Bio-Inspired Optimization for Microbial-Assisted Plastic Recycling and Pollution Mitigation in Aquatic Ecosystems (BIO-MAP)
Dr. Milad Abolhasani, North Carolina State Univerity
Sabbatical Host Institution: ETH Zurich
Title of Proposed Research: A Sustainable Research Acceleration Framework for CO2 Photoreduction Using Self-Driving Labs
Dr. Carla Ng, University of Pittsburgh
Sabbatical Host Institution: University of Toronto
Title of Proposed Research: Unlocking Safer Alternatives: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Thermodynamics for More Sustainable Molecular Design
2023 Recipients
Dr. Ambarish Kulkarni, University of California, Davis
Sabbatical Host Institution: Technical University of Denmark
Title of Proposed Research: Revolutionizing the Transportation Industry Using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers
Dr. Nicola H. Perry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sabbatical Host Institution: Imperial College London
Title of Proposed Research: Visualizing Nanoscale 3D Ion and Defect Chemical Kinetics in Sustainable Energy Materials and Devices: Advancing Tandem Isotope Exchange Tomography and Spectrometry
Dr. Yujie Sun, University of Cincinnati
Sabbatical Host Institution: Princeton University
Title of Proposed Research: Developing Green Electro/Photo-Enzymatic Catalysis for Sustainable Organic Synthesis
Dr. Christopher Wirth, Case Western Research University
Sabbatical Host Institution: Dow Chemical Company
Title of Proposed Research: Sustainable Formulation of Packaging Materials: Films, Packaging, and Coatings
Dr. Yang Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sabbatical Host Institution: Genentech, Inc.
Title of Proposed Research: Sustainable Photobiocatalytic Synthesis of Non-Canonical Amino Acids Under Continuous Flow Conditions
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