Assistant Professor of Chemistry Prashant K. Jain has received a 2015 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, which recognizes outstanding new faculty who excel in research, experience, and academic leadership. Jain was recognized for his work on atomic scale understanding of solid-state catalysts and reactive adsorbents.
The 3M award recognizes outstanding young new faculty who excel in research, academic leadership and experience. For over 25 years, the award has been given to help young faculty achieve tenure while teaching and conducting research. The company's Research and Development Community, in partnership with 3M's Corporate Giving Program, administer the award. Recipients are nominated by 3M researchers.
Research in Jain's group exploits light-matter interactions to image catalyst and photocatalyst
surfaces with unprecedented resolution, induce molecules and materials to exhibit non-natural optical phenomena, and uncover solid-state phenomena in complex materials.
Dr. Jain joined the University of Illinois faculty in 2011. Subsequently, he has been the recipient of numerous other awards including a Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Golden Jubilee Visiting Fellowship, a National Academy of Engineering E21 Innovator, a DuPont Young Professor Award, a Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator, MIT Technology Review TR35, Beckman Young Investigator Award, plus others.
Professor Jain may be contacted at jain@illinois.edu.
His group web site is: http://nanogold.org/