ACS PHYS Graduate Student Award Winners 2024

Congratulations to the ACS PHYS Graduate Student Award finalists who gave great presentations at our virtual symposium and to the four winners (two in Experiment and two in Theory).  The ACS PHYS community looks forward to seeing all of your amazing work in your future scientific journeys.

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Theoretical Physical Chemistry

Ardavan Farahvash
MIT
Advisor: Adam Willard

Theories of Phonon-Adsorbate Coupling and Ramifications for Catalytic Rates

Alexander Scott Powers
Stanford University
Advisor: Ron Dror

From Atoms to Therapeutics: Designing Better Drugs through Molecular Simulations and Machine Learning

Experimental Physical Chemistry

Matthew Ryan
University of Wisconsin
Advisor: Martin Zanni

2D IR spectroscopy of potassium ion channels

Qing Xie
Lehigh University
Advisor: Xiaoji Xu

Broadband Infrared Nano-Spectroscopy