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Honors & Awards

2025 Honors, Awards, & Achievements

Principal Investigators, Senior Investigators  
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Zhen Li: Clemson University, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure 05/01/25

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George Karniadakis: Brown Univeristy, Elected as a  member of the AAAS (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) 04/25/25 (Link)

Team Members
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Sai Aditya Pradeep: University of Delaware, Outstanding Young Alumni from Clemson University 05/01/25 (Link)

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Amit M. Deshpande: University of Delaware, All Hands 2nd place poster prize for PhD Students 01/30/25, Graduate Achievement Award 04/04/25

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Yunxia Chen: University of FloridaAll Hands 1st place poster prize for Postdocs 01/30/25 

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Hao Chen: Clemson Univesity, Environmental Scholars Award 04/23/25 (Link)

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Benjamin Ryder: University of FloridaAll Hands 1st place poster prize for PhD Students 01/30/25 

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Elham Kianiharchegani: Brown UniversityAll Hands 2nd place poster prize for Postdocs 01/30/25 

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Erik Anderson: University of Delaware, Joyce and Robert Richards Endowed Fellowship 04/21/25  (Link)

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Bowen Cao: Clemson University, All Hands 3rd place poster prize for PhD Students 01/30/25

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Venkatesh Ananchaperumal: Clemson UniversityAll Hands 3rd place poster prize for Postdocs 01/30/25 

2024 Honors, Awards, & Achievements

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AIM's 2024 MVP:
  • Amit Deshpande: University of Delaware

    • Research Award, Altair Enlighten Award (Future of Lightweighting), 08/06/24 (Link)

    • Poster Award, 3rd place All-Hands Poster Awards for Ph.D students, 08/13/24 (Link)

    • Achievement Award, 30 Under 30, 10/01/24 (Link)

    • Scholarship, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) TPO Global Automotive Conference 2024 Scholarship, 10/02/24 (Link)

2023 Honors & Awards

Partner Institutions
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Clemson University

University of Delaware

Ohio State University

Brown University

University of Florida

South Carolina State University

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Savannah River National Laboratory

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AIM for Composites, an Energy Frontier Research Center is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences at Clemson University under award #DE-SC0023389. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the PI(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the DOE.

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