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 P. 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

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Adrienn Ruzsinszky

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

Gustavo E. 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 J. Srolovitz 

• Election to the National Academy of Engineering (induction in 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