The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 19 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025. These faculty are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
Ashok Ajoy
University of California, Berkeley
Quantum Sensor NMR
Connor Coley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molecular Design, Synthesis, and Analysis with Data Science and Machine Learning
Milan Delor
Columbia University
Realizing Lossless Energy and Information Flow in Materials and Molecules
Selvan Demir
Michigan State University
Developing Lanthanide-Based Organometallic Chemistry for Applications in Magnetism, Quantum Information Science, and Small Molecule Activation
Nicholas Jackson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A Chemically Transferable Coarse-Grained Electronic Structure Model for Polymers
Xinle Li
Clark Atlanta University
Sustainable Pathways to Impactful Porous Materials for Addressing Societal Challenges
Yuzhang Li
University of California, Los Angeles
Innovating Cryo-EM Tools to Accelerate Technologies in Energy and Sustainability
MartÃn Mosquera
Montana State University
Investigate Extended Quantum Correlations of Quantum Light and Their Effect on Molecular Chromophores
Marvin Parasram
New York University
Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles
Courtney Roberts
University of Minnesota
Taming Aryne Intermediates to Impact Medicinal Chemistry
Linsey Seitz
Northwestern University
Harnessing Dynamic Materials and Systems for Sustainable Electrocatalytic Technologies
Weixin Tang
The University of Chicago
Enzyme Engineering to Fuel Genome Editing and Therapeutics Discovery
Thao Tran Dominy
Clemson University
Chemical Bonding in Quantum Materials: Simple, Innovative Solutions for Future Energy and Information Technology
Lu Wei
California Institute of Technology
Illuminating Subcellular Biology through Functional Bond-Selective Imaging
Zachary Wickens
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selective Synthesis Using Light and Electricity
Su-Yang Xu
Harvard University
Bridging Quantum Chemistry and Physics by Chirality
Yang Yang
University of California, Santa Barbara
New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis
Huiyuan Zhu
University of Virginia
Advancing Sustainable Chemistry and Environmental Remediation with Well-Defined Materials
Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advancing the Logic of Polymer Synthesis, Modification, and Degradation