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CoMSEF Graduate Student Award

Purpose

The Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) annual Graduate Student Award recognizes significant contributions to research in computational molecular science and engineering by graduate students.

Requirements

The nominee must be a graduate student and member of CoMSEF at the time of the AIChE Annual Meeting at which the award is presented (see below). In addition, the faculty nominator must be a member of CoMSEF.

Students first submit an abstract to present a poster within the CoMSEF Poster Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting. See the AIChE call for abstracts regarding the deadline.

The student's dissertation advisor then submits a nominating letter and the student's curriculum vitae to the CoMSEF Vice-Chair (co-chair@comsef.org) by October 1 each year. For more information, please click here.

Details
Award

The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium. Multiple awards are typically presented annually.

AdministratorsComputational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum (CoMSEF)
PresentationAwardees are announced at the CoMSEF Business Meeting at the AIChE Annual Meeting.
Nomination Instructions

Nomination Process

Nominations should consist of a nominating letter from the student’s dissertation advisor and the curriculum vitae of the nominee. These should be sent by the advisor via e-mail in pdf format to the CoMSEF Vice-Chair (co-chair@comsef.org) by October 1 each year.

Nominees must present a poster within the CoMSEF Poster session at the AIChE Annual Meeting. The deadline for submission of poster abstracts coincides with the PTP submission deadline for the annual meeting.

Selection Process

A committee composed of CoMSEF officers evaluates nominees. Selection criteria include the student’s CV, the nomination letter from the advisor, the quality of the poster, and the student’s ability to describe their research.

Contact

Please contact the Chair (chair@comsef.org) for further information and questions.

Nomination Form

Award winners

  • Siddarth Achar


    2023
  • Prateek Mehta


    2017
  • Gul Zerze


    2016
  • Robert Elder


    2013
  • Andrew White
    Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington

    2012
  • Christopher E Wilmer


    2012
  • Lauren Abbott


    2011
  • Andrew Paluch


    2011
  • Vasilios Manousiouthakis
    Early Career Award

    2010
  • Sumeet C. Pandey


    2010
  • Diwakar Shulka


    2010
  • Dimitrios Argyris
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2009
  • Ed Magnin
    Early Career Award

    2009
  • Gloria A. E. Oxford
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2009
  • Rachel Getman
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2008
  • Jeremy Purvis
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2008
  • Chethan Acharya
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2007
  • Harish Vashisth
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2007
  • Erik Santiso
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2006
  • Megha Surve
    Award for Outstanding Research

    2006