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.”
Pedro Reis
Chris Santangelo
2016 Recipient:
Ivan I. Smalyukh
University of Colorado (Boulder)
Ivan's website
Citation: “For outstanding contributions to the understanding of liquid crystalline materials systems”
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.”