The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of seventeen new Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2026.
The award honors early-career faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and are deeply committed to education with undergraduates. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
The 2026 winners are:
 
Ira Caspari-Gnann
Tufts University
The Impact of Instructor Facilitation, Class Design, and Power on In-the-Moment Chemistry Learning
Abdoulaye Djire
Texas A&M University
Designing Lattice-Active MXenes for Electrochemical Catalysis, Separations, and Energy Storage
Austin Evans
University of Florida
Emergent Phenomena in Crystalline and Porous Macromolecular Systems
Matthew Golder
University of Washington
(Re)design & (Re)construction of Plastics: Enhancing Polymer Integrity and Sustainability
Jennifer Hirschi
Binghamton University
Modern Experimental Probes and Theoretical Studies for the Elucidation of Contemporary Catalytic Reactions
Jessica Lamb
University of Minnesota
Harnessing Main-Chain Dipoles in Polymers for Next-Generation Dielectric Materials
Stacy Malaker
Yale University
Cracking the Glycocode through Next-Generation Glycoproteomic Technologies
Emily Mevers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ecology-Driven Natural Product Discovery
Mona Minkara
Northeastern University
Decoding the Molecular Logic of Innate Immune Recognition
Andrés Montoya-Castillo
University of Colorado Boulder
Next Generation Dimensionality Reduction to Predict, Measure, and Manipulate Energy Flow
Grant Rotskoff
Stanford University
Building Thermodynamically Aware Chemical Intelligence
Karthik Shekhar
University of California, Berkeley
The Chemical Physics of Bioelectricity: From Ion Channels to Emergent Excitability
Timothy Su
University of California, Riverside
Molecular Silicon Electronics
Roel Tempelaar
Northwestern University
New Theories of the Optics, Chirality, and Excited-State Dynamics of Materials
Huiliang “Evan” Wang
The University of Texas at Austin
Molecular Engineering of Organic Nanomaterials for Ultrasound-Activated Neuromodulation
Marissa Weichman
Princeton University
Spectroscopy, Dynamics, and Photonic Control of Complex Chemical Systems
Anna Wuttig
University of Chicago
Designing for Disorder in the Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals