ECS Announces Spring 2026 Award Winners

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Congratulations to the spring ECS award recipients! These distinguished individuals have demonstrated exceptional achievement and made meaningful contributions to the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science. Their dedication, innovation, and commitment are an inspiration to the broader community.

Their accomplishments will be formally recognized at the 250th ECS Meeting in Calgary, Canada, as well as at select upcoming ECS Section Meetings.

Join us in celebrating their impact on the scientific community. The Society looks forward to honoring their continued success.

ECS SOCIETY AWARDS

Charles W. Tobias Early-Career Award – Burcu Gurkan, Case Western Reserve University

Edward Goodrich Acheson Award – Robert Savinell, Case Western Reserve University

Norman Hackerman Young Author Award – Ruihao Deng, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bruce Deal and Andy Grove Young Author Award – Hongpeng Zhang, Xiamen University of Technology

ECS DIVISION AWARDS

Battery Division Early Career Award – Matteo Bianchini, Universität Bayreuth

Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation – Sicen Yu, University of California, San Diego

Battery Division Research Award – Martin Bazant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Battery Division Technology Award – Ping Liu, University of California, San Diego

Corrosion Division Early Career Award – Samantha Gateman, Western University

Corrosion Division H.H. Uhlig Award – Johannes M.C. Mol, Technische Universiteit Delft

Corrosion Division Rusty Award for Mid-Career Excellence – Yoshinao Hoshi, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Electrodeposition Division Early Career Investigator Award – Walter Giurlani, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Electrodeposition Division Research Award – Luca Managnin, Politecnico di Milano

Energy Technology Division Walter van Schalkwijk Award in Sustainable Energy Technology – Vito Di Noto, Università degli Studi di Padova

High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division Outstanding Achievement Award – Turgut Gür, Stanford University

Luminescence and Display Materials Division Outstanding Achievement Award – Eugeniusz Zych, Uniwersytet Wroclawski

Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division David C. Grahame Award – Marc Koper, Universiteit Leiden

Sensor Division Early Career Award – Aida Ebrahimi, The Pennsylvania State University

Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award – Larry Nagahara, John Hopkins University and Praveen Kumar Sekhar, Washington State University

ECS SECTION AWARDS

Canada Section Electrochemical Award – Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo

Europe Section Alessandro Volta Medal – Philippe Marcus, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Chimie ParisTech

San Francisco Section Award – Oana Leonte, Berkeley Polymer Technologies, Inc.

ECS STUDENT AWARDS

Battery Division Student Research Award – Xinzhe Xue, University of California, Santa Cruz and Ziqing Wang, The University of Texas at Austin

Canada Section Student Award – Luma Clarindo Lopes, University of Manitoba

Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award – Ho Lun Chan, University of Virginia

Korea Section Student Award – Youngjun Jeon, Seoul National University

Pacific Northwest Section Electrochemistry Student Award – Minh Duong, University of Washington

San Francisco Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award – Winner: Siddharth Rajupet, University of California, Berkeley | Honorable Mentions: Jacob Florian, Stanford University and Xinzhe Xue, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sensor Division Student Research Award – Yingjie Hang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Congratulations once again to all the winners.

Questions? Contact awards@electrochem.org.

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