Delia Milliron Wins Prestigious Sloan Fellowship
Delia Milliron, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, joins three other trailblazing faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin who have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships.
The prestigious fellowships are awarded every year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to stimulate fundamental research by early-career engineers, scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The 126 winners for 2016 were selected out of more than 600 nominations from top research universities in the Unites States and Canada. Fellows receive awards of $55,000 each to further their research.
Milliron specializes in chemical synthesis and assembly of nanostructured electronic and electrochemical materials, processing-structure-property relationships, energy and electronic devices. Milliron’s research is motivated by new concepts for high-performance electrochromic smart windows, batteries and photovoltaic cells. She earned her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
This has been an outstanding academic year for Milliron. She was recently awarded with the 2015 Resnick Sustainability Institute Resonate Award, named associate editor for Nano Letters (an American Chemical Society publication), and has received an abundance of positive press for her smart window research.
The three other UT faculty members receiving this award are:
Brett Baker, assistant professor in the Department of Marine Science, is a microbial ecologist whose research intersects the fields of ecology, evolution, oceanography and geochemistry. His work harnesses omic approaches (genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics). By obtaining genomes of entirely new branches on the tree of life, his research also provides insights into how life has evolved on the planet. Baker earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he studied microbes in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes.
Jeffrey Danciger, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University under Steven Kerckhoff. He was then awarded a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation and conducted postdoctoral research at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests lie in low-dimensional geometry and topology including hyperbolic manifolds and other non-Euclidean geometric structures.
Guihua Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing low-cost, high-performance nanostructured materials that are environmentally friendly and compatible with large-scale processing for energy storage systems such as lithium batteries and electrochemical capacitors. In addition to his exploration of energy conversion technologies, Yu’s research also focuses on self-assembly of nanostructures for bioelectronics. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University.
Since the establishment of the Sloan Research Fellowship, 43 fellows have received a Nobel Prize in their respective field, 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics and 68 have received the National Medal of Science.
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