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Awards

Major honors for CCDM senior investigators

Arun Bansil

  • Northeastern University Distinguished Professor, 2015
  • Awarded of the 38th Annual Robert D. Klein University Lectureship at Northeastern University, 2015


Eric Borguet

  • Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 2013
  • Temple University CST Dean’s Distinguished Excellence in Mentoring Award, 2012
  • Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2012
  • American Physical Society, Fellow, 2010
  • Adjunct Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2010-2013
  • American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section Award, 2009
  • U.S. Young Observer to 2007 IUPAC General Assembly and Congress, 2007
  • Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2007-2008
  • Adjunct Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2002-2011
  • Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux, France, 1999
  • NSF CAREER Award, 1998-2002


Maria Iavarone

  • Award of the Japan Science and Technology Agency-Riken, 2018
  • Award of Italian Ministry of Science and Education- Visiting Professor at University of Salerno, Italy, 2009
  • Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Japan (January 5- February 9), 2009
  • Visiting Associate Professor at the International Frontier Center for Advanced Materials (IFCAM), Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan (January 30- March 7), 2008
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar Award, Argonne National Laboratory, 1999


Michael Klein

  • Honorary Doctor of Science University of St. Andrews Scotland, 2017
  • Honorary Fellow Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, 2015
  • Honorary Fellow Trinity College Cambridge UK, 2013
  • UK Royal Society of Chemistry FS Boys – A Rahman Prize, 2011
  • US National Academy of Sciences (Chemistry), 2009
  • American Chemical Society Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, 2008 
  • Fellow Mongolian National Academy of Sciences 2006 Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences – Bangalore, 2008
  • Chemical Research Society of India CNR Rao Award, 2006
  • Fellow The World Academy of Sciences, TWAS 2004 European Physical Society CECAM Prize for Computational Science, 2004
  • Fellow American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2003
  • Fellow Royal Society of London, 2003
  • American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize Computational Physics, 1999
  • Fellow Royal Society of Canada, 1984


John Perdew

  • Mulliken Medal, Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2018
  • American Chemical Society Symposium “Adventures in Density Functional Theory, in Honor of Mel Levy and John P. Perdew”, organized by Weitao Yang and Paul Ayers, 2018
  • John Scott Award, 2015
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, 2015
  • Humboldt Research Award, 2014
  • Articles ranked 16th and 93rd on the Top 100 most-cited scholarly articles of all time (Nature 514, 550, 2014), 2014
  • Materials Research Award, Materials Research Society, 2012
  • National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2011
  • International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 2003
  • Fellow - American Physical Society, 1991


Adrienn Ruzsinszky

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2016
  • Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2016
  • IBM-Löwdin Award, 2008
  •  Pro Progressio Award for PhD work, 2004


Gustavo Scuseria

  • S F Boys – A Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
  • Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2015-2017
  • Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis der A. von Humboldt-Stiftung), 2015
  • Vice President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 2012
  • Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology Theory, 2010
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2010
  • Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 2009
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2003
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
  • IBM Partnership Award, 1998
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1992
  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award, 1992


David Srolovitz

  • Election to the National Academy of Engineering, 2015


Jianwei Sun

  • Young Scientist Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in Computational Physics, 2016


Xifan Wu

  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, 2016
  • Graduate school fellowship, Rutgers, Piscataway NJ, 2001
  • Motorola Outstanding Research Award, Nanjing University, 2000
  • University level Outstanding Student Award, Nanjing University, 2000


Qimin Yan

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Research Achievement Award, Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011


Michael Zdilla

  • Millersville University Distinguished Alumni Award, 2017
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, 2014
  • Robert L. Smith Early Career Chair in Chemistry, 2013
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 2013
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2013
  • Hubert Alyea ’24 Teaching Award, 2004
  • Miles Pickering Teaching Award, 2003
  • American Institute of Chemists Award, 2000
  • A. G. Breidenstine Scholarship, 2000
  • Page 2 of 3 ACS POLYED Polymer Education Award, 1999
  • Gerald S. Weiss Inorganic Chemistry Scholarship, 1998


Yimei Zhu

  • Recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award (highest honor of the society), Microscopy Society of America, 2018
  • Lee Hsun Research and Lecture Prize, 2018
  • Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018
  • Senior Research Fellow, T.D. Lee Institute for Advanced Research, 2016
  • Elected Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science, 2016
  • Distinguished Asian American Awards (issued by Suffolk County Executive S. Bellone, and by New York Governor A. Cuomo), 2015
  • World Premier Institute Visiting Professor, Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture, Tohoku University, Sendai, 2013
  • Nanqiang Memory Lecture Award, Xianmen University, China, 2013
  • 2011 R & D100 Award, “Multimodal Optical Nanoprobe” R & D Magazine, 2011
  • Innovation Award, MicroscopyToday, for development of an innovative method on in-situ optoelectronic microscopy, Microscopy Society of America, 2011
  • Innovation Award, MicroscopyToday, for development of an innovative method of ultra-highresolution atomic imaging of surfaces and bulk materials, Microscopy Society of America, 2010
  • Elected Inaugural Fellow, Microscopy Society of America, 2009
  • Elected Fellow, American Physics Society, 2006
  • Distinguished Science and Technology Award, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2003
  • Program Development Award, Energy, Environment and National Security, BNL, 2001
  • Basic Energy Sciences Chunky Bullet Competition Award, Department of Energy, 2001
  • Kazuo Award, International Federation of Societies for Electron Microscopy, ICEM-11, Kyoto, 1986
  • China-Japan Government Fellowship, Ministry of Education, 1982-1987
  • Chinese 1st Nationwide Competition for Overseas-Graduate-Study Scholarship, 1981