Early Career Award Winners

2017 Recipients:

Pedro Reis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pedro's website

Citation: “For seminal experimental and numerical contributions to the understanding of elastic instabilities and geometric nonlinearities in soft matter.”

Chris Santangelo
University of Massachusetts
Chris' blog

Citation: “For seminal theoretical contributions exploiting geometry and topology to understand the elasticity of soft materials.”

2016 Recipient:

Ivan I. Smalyukh
University of Colorado (Boulder)
Ivan's website

Citation: “For outstanding contributions to the understanding of liquid crystalline materials systems”

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2015 Recipient:

Todd Squires
UC Santa Barbara
Todd's website

Citation: “For seminal contributions to our understanding of the dynamics of soft matter, including colloidal hydrodynamics, microrheology, microfluidics and electrokinetics.”

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