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Jacob Monroe (California-Santa Barbara, advisor: M. Scott Shell) and Prateek Mehta (Notre Dame, advisor: Bill Schneider) won the 2017 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in October.

Professor Christopher E. Wilmer from the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is the 2017 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. He is cited, “For his pioneering work on generating hypothetical metal-organic frameworks, and screening them on a large-scale for energy and environmental applications”. Chris has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 2014.

Professor M. Scott Shell from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara is the winner of the 2017 CoMSEF Impact Award. He is cited, “For the development of a powerful statistical mechanical theory of coarse-graining and associated multiscale algorithms to understand complex biomolecular, liquid, and soft material systems”. Scott has been a member of the faculty at UC Santa Barbara since 2007.

We will elect 2 Liaison Directors and select a CoMSEF logo from the candidates submitted by student members. A link to the ballot will be sent to you by email. Please vote by Monday October 30.

The Liaison Directors shall:

CoMSEF is over 15 years old but still doesn’t have a logo. Let’s fix that! The CoMSEF Executive Committee would like to challenge the student members of CoMSEF to create a CoMSEF logo.

Logo Requirements:

• Must be a PNG file with transparent background
• Must be square in shape with resolution of 300 dpi or higher
• Must contain the CoMSEF acronym

Prizes for the winner:

Andrew Ferguson from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the 2016 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. Andrew joined the faculty at Illinois in 2012 after a postdoc at MIT, Ph.D. from Princeton, and MEng from Imperial College London.

Professor Thomas Truskett from the University of Texas is the winner of the 2016 CoMSEF Impact Award, which cites his work “For creative and pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems.” Thomas has been on the faculty at Texas-Austin since 2002 following an NIH NRSA postdoc at California-San Francisco, PhD at Princeton, and his Bachelor at Texas.

Gül Zerze (Lehigh University, advisor: Jeetain Mittal) and Kayla Sprenger (University of Washington, advisor: Jim Pfaendtner) won the 2016 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City in November.

Adhiram Muralidhar (U. Minnesota, advisor: Kevin Dorfman) and Christopher Paolucci (U. Notre Dame, advisor: William Schneider) won the 2015 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City in November.

Joshua A. Anderson from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan is the 2015 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. Joshua joined the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, as a Senior Research Area Specialist in 2009, after obtaining his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory.