We are delighted to announce that Grace Han, from Brandeis University, is the recipient of this year’s Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry. This prize, sponsored by ChemComm, is named in honour of the winners of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and recognises significant original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry. Please join us in celebrating Grace’s achievement.
Grace Han received her PhD in 2015 at MIT, where she worked with Professor Timothy Swager on the development of organic materials for photovoltaics. She then joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Jeffrey Grossman. Grace has been awarded several honors during her independent career, including a 2022 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award, a 2022 NSF CAREER award, a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a 2023 DFG Mercator Fellowship, a 2023 DoD DURIP Award, and the 2024 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship.
She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University, and her group’s research focuses on the discovery of molecular photoswitches and photochemistry for applications including the solar energy conversion and storage, optically-controlled catalyst recycling, and light-induced phase transitions.
Find more info about Grace and her group on Twitter @GraceGDHan and Bluesky @gracegdhan.bsky.social
