NSF CAREER Awards
NSF CAREER Awards
NSF CAREER Award recipients
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the federal agency’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty serving as academic role models in research and education. Faculty honored with a CAREER Award are recognized for their potential as outstanding leaders in their field of research.
2024 Awardees
Gerard Capellades
Crystal formation studies could improve the production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food products and materials.
Chen Shen
Research on surface acoustic waves is laying the groundwork for producing more functional sensors for communication, electrical and biomedical devices.
Kirti Yenkie
Machine learning and modeling can improve the process synthesis and design of wastewater treatment systems.
Erik Hoy
The next generation of quantum sensors has huge potential, allowing for greater accuracy in many applications including medical imaging and GPS navigation.
2023 Awardees
Yong Chen
An interdisciplinary approach to examining chromatin will lead to a better understanding of basic biology and disease, pointing the way toward potential therapeutics.
Jason Heindl
Studying how Agrobacterium genetically engineers plants for its own survival may lead to discovering new methods of increasing food production and crop yields.
Andra Garner
Understanding uncertainty in projections will help scientists and others make more informed decisions about sea-level rise and its sensitivity to climate change drivers.
Sebastian Vega
When stored in traditional petri dishes, the special properties of mesenchymal stem cells decline over time. Designing better storage materials that mimic the human body could rapidly advance research.
Nicholas Whiting
Using magnetic resonance to study carbon-based quantum dots opens the door to developing new chemical sensing capabilities and biomedical applications.
Previous recipients
James Grinias
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Svjetlana Vojvodic-Kruse
Associate Professor
Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Nathaniel Nucci
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Jie Li
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Gustavo Moura-Letts
Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Vince Beachley
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Tabbetha Dobbins
Vice President for Research, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Ken Lau
Department Head, Professor
Chemical Engineering
Robi Polikar
Department Head, Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering