• 2022: Hanwha-Total Energies IUPAC Young Scientist Award

• 2022: Dean's Award for Excellence In Research for Associate Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2021: Racheff faculty Scholar, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2020: Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, UIUC (Feb.)

• 2018: Unilever Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Science, American Chemical Society (Jun.)

• 2018: The DURIP (Defense University Research Instrumentation Program) Award from department of defense (Apr.)

• 2018: Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Feb.)

• 2017: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Solid State and Materials Chemistry program, National Science Foundation (Nov.)

• 2017: ACS Petroleum Research Foundation Doctoral New Researcher Award (Oct.)

• 2016: Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, Biophysics Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Oct.)

• 2016: The SN 10 List of Scientists Making the Next Big Discoveries; Science News Magazine (one of the 10 early- and mid-career scientists, age 40 and under, selected among all science disciplines) (Sep.)

• 2016: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), United Kingdom (to a distinguished professor from an overseas academic centre of excellence for up to one month in UK university to build capacity and promote collaborations) (Aug.)

• 2016: Forbes 30 under 30 Science List, Forbes Magazine (Jan.)

• 2015: Victor LaMer Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Jun.)

Research Interests:

• Materials for Energy and the Environment