The Electrochemical Society awarded the 2024 Electrodeposition Division Research Award to Professor Andrew A. Gewirth, Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor in Analytical Chemistry.

The Electrochemical Society seeks to advance solid state and electrochemical science and technology. The Electrodeposition Division Research Award was established in 1979 to recognize outstanding research contributions to the field of electrodeposition and encourage publication of high-quality papers in this field in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES). Recipients of the award have made recent outstanding achievement in, or contribution to, the field of electrodeposition, and are authors or co-authors of a paper or papers reporting the new achievement.

Professor Andrew A. Gewirth received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1988 after postdoctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin. Research in his group focuses on the structure and reactivity of surfaces and interfaces. His group utilizes local probe microscopies in conjunction with electrochemical, computational, and spectroscopic methods. Electrochemical use of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) was developed in the Gewirth laboratory.