CHASE Principal Investigator Jeffrey E. Dick has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow.
On Feb. 16, the Sloan Foundation announced the 2021 fellowships to 128 outstanding early-career researchers across eight fields from 58 institutions in the United States and Canada. Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 research fellowship.
Research in the Dick lab seeks to understand how chemicals react in very small volumes, including single cells. To achieve this, scientists develop nanoprobes that are a thousand times smaller than a human hair and study reactivity in water nanodroplets as a biological mimic. This research sets a foundation to rigorously evaluate reactivity in nanoscale systems.
Awarded annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the prestigious fellowships honor extraordinary researchers whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders. “A Sloan Research Fellow is a rising star, plain and simple,” said Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “To receive a Fellowship is to be told by the scientific community that your achievements as a young scholar are already driving the research frontier.”
Among Dick’s impressive achievements are making the Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in 2019 and Medical Technology’s 30 under 30 Young Innovators list in 2016. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and a B.S. in chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin, working with Allen Bard. He joined the UNC Chemistry Department in 2016. His CHASE projects include research on liquid fuel cascades converting CO2 and N2 to organonitrogen fuels.