The 2026 PMSE Early Investigators Award Committee selected twenty four members, consisting of professors, government researchers, and industry scientists across the field of polymer science. A symposium highlighting their work will be held at the 2026 Fall ACS National Meeting. The full list from all years can be found at the Early Investigator Symposium page.
| First Name | Last Name | University | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn | Besford | Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research | 2026 |
| Connor | Bischak | University of Utah | 2026 |
| Cassandra | Callmann | University of Texas at Austin | 2026 |
| Cécile | Chazot | Northwestern University | 2026 |
| Josh | Enokida | Dow Inc. | 2026 |
| Austin | Evans | University of Florida | 2026 |
| Adrian | Figg | Virginia Tech | 2026 |
| Jeff | Foster | Oak Ridge National Lab | 2026 |
| Hanyu | Gao | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 2026 |
| Ting | Ge | University of South Carolina | 2026 |
| Aristide | Gumyusenge | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2026 |
| Jessica | Lamb | University of Minnesota | 2026 |
| Jinghua | Li | The Ohio State University | 2026 |
| Shaoting | Lin | Michigan State University | 2026 |
| Boran | Ma | University of Southern Mississippi | 2026 |
| Glendimar | Molero | Dow Inc. | 2026 |
| Gabriel | Sanoja | University of Texas at Austin | 2026 |
| Hamed | Shahsavan | University of Waterloo | 2026 |
| Tomohiro | Kubo | Institute of Science Tokyo | 2026 |
| Helen | Tran | University of Toronto | 2026 |
| Peter | Waller | Dow Inc. | 2026 |
| Michael | Webb | Princeton University | 2026 |
| Wenlin | Zhang | Dartmouth | 2026 |
| Jian-Bo | Zhu | Sichuan University | 2026 |
| Chibueze | Amanchukwu | University of Chicago | 2025 |
| Herdeline Ann | Ardona | University of California, Irvine | 2025 |
| Wubin | Bai | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2025 |
| Luke | Baldwin | Air Force Research Laboratory | 2025 |
| José Augusto | Berrocal | Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia | 2025 |
| Tristan | Clemons | University of Southern Mississippi | 2025 |
| Graham | Collier | University of Southern Mississippi | 2025 |
| Kailong | Jin | Arizona State University | 2025 |
| Milad | Kamkar | University of Waterloo | 2025 |
| Alex | Kosanovich | Dow Chemical Company | 2025 |
| Jimmy | Lawrence | Louisiana State University | 2025 |
| Alexandra | Paterson | University of Kentucky | 2025 |
| Abdon | Pena-Francesch | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 2025 |
| Yusen | Qiao | Dow Chemical Company | 2025 |
| Greg | Su | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 2025 |
| Caroline | Szczepanski | Michigan State University | 2025 |
| Rui | Wang | University of California, Berkeley | 2025 |
| Yichun | Wang | University of Notre Dame | 2025 |
| David M. | Warsinger | Purdue University | 2025 |
| Jörg | Werner | Boston University | 2025 |
| Robert | Woodward | University of Vienna | 2025 |
| Weinan | Xu | University of Akron | 2025 |
| Fengyi | Zhang | Dow Chemical Company | 2025 |
| Jiadeng | Zhu | Brewer Science Inc. | 2025 |
| Stephanie | Barbon | Dow Chemical Company | 2024 |
| Johannes C. | Brendel | University of Bayreuth | 2024 |
| Liheng | Cai | University of Virginia | 2024 |
| Wan-Ting | Chen | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 2024 |
| Kaitlyn | Crawford | University of Central Florida | 2024 |
| Yifan | Dong | Dow Chemical Company | 2024 |
| Matthew | Golder | University of Washington | 2024 |
| Miao | Hong | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2024 |
| Jovan | Kamcev | University of Michigan | 2024 |
| Laure | Kayser | University of Delaware | 2024 |
| Yoonseob | Kim | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 2024 |
| Abigail | Knight | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2024 |
| Svetlana | Morozova | Case Western Reserve University | 2024 |
| P. | Padmanabhan | Rochester Institute of Technology | 2024 |
| Jihye | Park | University of Colorado | 2024 |
| Luqing | Qi | Dow Chemical Company | 2024 |
| Eleftheria | Roumeli | University of Washington | 2024 |
| Michael | Schulz | Virginia Technological University | 2024 |
| Amir | Sheikhi | Pennsylvania State University | 2024 |
| Junpeng | Wang | University of Akron | 2024 |
| Xiaoguang | Wang | Ohio State University | 2024 |
| Mostafa | Yourdkhani | Colorado State University | 2024 |
| Cheng | Zhang | University of Quennsland | 2024 |
| A. | Zhukhovitskiy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2024 |
| Jinhye | Bae | University of California, San Diego | 2023 |
| Rhett | Baillie | Dow Chemical Company | 2023 |
| Michelle | Calabrese | University of Minnesota | 2023 |
| Matthew | Carter | Dow Chemical Company | 2023 |
| Shiwang | Cheng | Michigan State University | 2023 |
| Shudipto | Dishari | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | 2023 |
| Elizabeth | Elacqua | Pennsylvania State University | 2023 |
| Michele | Galizia | University of Oklahoma | 2023 |
| Lihua | Jin | University of California, Los Angeles | 2023 |
| Reika | Katsumata | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2023 |
| Anthony | Kotula | NIST | 2023 |
| Jennifer | Laaser | University of Pittsburgh | 2023 |
| Tian | Lan | Dow Chemical Company | 2023 |
| Ying | Li | University of Wisconsin, Madison | 2023 |
| Robert | Macfarlane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2023 |
| Lutz | Nuhn | University of Würzburg | 2023 |
| Shrayesh N. | Patel | University of Chicago | 2023 |
| Stacy | Pesek | Dow Chemical Company | 2023 |
| Louis | Pitet | Hasselt University | 2023 |
| Zhe | Qiang | University of Southern Mississippi | 2023 |
| Jerome | Robinson | Brown University | 2023 |
| Sihong | Wang | University of Chicago | 2023 |
| Dong | Woog Lee | UNIST | 2023 |
| Wenjie | Xia | North Dakota State University | 2023 |
| Jie | Xu | Argonne National Laboratory | 2023 |
| Athina | Anastasaki | ETH Zurich | 2022 |
| Mohammad | Arjmand | University of British Columbia | 2022 |
| Kelly | Burke | University of Connecticut | 2022 |
| Jun | Chen | University of California, Los Angeles | 2022 |
| Xi (Chelsea) | Chen | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 2022 |
| Lesley | Chow | Lehigh University | 2022 |
| Christopher | Evans | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 2022 |
| Grace | Gu | University of California, Berkeley | 2022 |
| Sahika | Inal | King Abdullah University | 2022 |
| Piran | Kidambi | Vanderbilt University | 2022 |
| Daniel | King | Hokkaido University | 2022 |
| Katelyn | Languell | 3M | 2022 |
| Quentin | Michaudel | Texas A&M University | 2022 |
| Zachariah | Page | Univesity of Texas, Austin | 2022 |
| Nathaniel | Park | IBM | 2022 |
| Christian | Pester | Pennsylvania State University | 2022 |
| Maxwell | Robb | California Institute of Technology | 2022 |
| Kenan | Song | Arizona State University | 2022 |
| Ran | Tao | NIST | 2022 |
| Muzhou | Wang | Northwestern University | 2022 |
| Xueju (Sophie) | Wang | University of Connecticut | 2022 |
| Rong | Yang | Cornell University | 2022 |
| Matthew B. | Baker | Maastricht University, The Netherlands | 2021 |
| Sidi A. | Bencherif | Northeastern University | 2021 |
| Elizabeth J. | Brisbois | University of Georgia | 2021 |
| Pengfei | Cao | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 2021 |
| Mao | Chen | Fudan University, China | 2021 |
| Leila | Deravi | Northeastern University | 2021 |
| Kun (Kelvin) | Fu | Universtiy of Delaware | 2021 |
| Nagarjuna | Gavvalapalli | Georgetown University | 2021 |
| Chenfeng | Ke | Dartmouth College | 2021 |
| Jia | Niu | Boston College | 2021 |
| Allie | Obermeyer | Columbia University | 2021 |
| Haritz | Sardon | University of Basque Country / Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV-EHU), Spain | 2021 |
| Samanvaya | Srivastava | University of California, Los Angeles | 2021 |
| Lauren | Zarzar | Pennsylvania State University | 2021 |
| Jonathan | Barnes | Washington University at St. Louis | 2020 |
| Blair | Brettmann | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2020 |
| Melanie | Chiu | Stony Brook University | 2020 |
| Hoyong | Chung | Florida State University | 2020 |
| Reza | Foudazi | New Mexico State | 2020 |
| Xiaodan | Gu | University of Southern Mississippi | 2020 |
| Zachary | Hudson | University of British Columbia | 2020 |
| Hua | Lu | Peking University | 2020 |
| Jianguo | Mei | Purdue University | 2020 |
| Jian | Qin | Stanford University | 2020 |
| Jonathan | Rivnay | Northwestern University | 2020 |
| Jennifer | Schaefer | University of Notre Dame | 2020 |
| Charles | Sing | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 2020 |
| Morgan | Stefik | University of South Carolina | 2020 |
| Matthew | Webber | University of Notre Dame | 2020 |
| Eric | Appel | Stanford University | 2019 |
| Christopher | Bates | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2019 |
| Gaurav | Giri | University of Virginia | 2019 |
| Damien | Guironnet | U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2019 |
| Will | Gutekunst | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019 |
| Robert | Hickey | Pennsylvania State University | 2019 |
| Julia | Kalow | Northwestern University | 2019 |
| Nathalie | Lavoine | North Carolina State University | 2019 |
| Frank | Leibfarth | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2019 |
| Andrew | Magenau | Drexel University | 2019 |
| Adrianne | Rosales | University of Texas at Austin | 2019 |
| Ellen | Sletten | University of California, Los Angeles | 2019 |
| Zhiting | Tian | Cornell University | 2019 |
| Mingjiang | Zhong | Yale University | 2019 |
| Chris | Alabi | Cornell University | 2018 |
| Matthias | Barz | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | 2018 |
| Guosong | Chen | Fudan University, China | 2018 |
| Kai | Chen | Carbon 3D | 2018 |
| Eliaf | Egap | Rice University | 2018 |
| Adam | Ekenseair | Northeastern University | 2018 |
| Mike | Hore | Case Western Reserve University | 2018 |
| Justin | Kennemur | Florida State University | 2018 |
| Chris | Kloxin | University of Delaware | 2018 |
| Dominik | Konkolewicz | Miami University Ohio | 2018 |
| Guoliang (Greg) | Liu | Virginia Technological University | 2018 |
| John | Matson | Virginia Technological University | 2018 |
| Psaras | McGrier | Ohio State Unviersity | 2018 |
| Katherine | Mirica | Dartmouth College | 2018 |
| Ed | Palermo | Rennsealear Polytenchic Institute (RPI) | 2018 |
| Victoria | Piunova | IBM | 2018 |
| Jon | Pokorski | University of California, San Diego | 2018 |
| Tim | Scott | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 2018 |
| Stefanie | Sydlik | Carnegie Mellon University | 2018 |
| Davita | Watkins | University of Mississippi | 2018 |
| Ke | Zhang | Northeastern University | 2018 |
| Roey | Amir | Tel Aviv University | 2017 |
| Jeffrey | Byers | Boston College | 2017 |
| Cole | DeForest | University of Washington | 2017 |
| Aaron | Esser-Kahn | University of California, Irvine | 2017 |
| Lei | Fang | Texas A&M University | 2017 |
| Brett | Fors | Cornell University | 2017 |
| Kamil | Godula | University of California, San Diego | 2017 |
| Matthew | Kiesewetter | University of Rhode Island | 2017 |
| Rebekka | Klaussen | Johns Hopkins University | 2017 |
| April | Kloxin | University of Delaware | 2017 |
| Yi | Liu | Molecular Foundry | 2017 |
| Laetitia | Mespouille | University of Mons, Belgium | 2017 |
| Cecile | Monteaux | CNRS ESPCI, France | 2017 |
| Deidre | O’Carrol | Rutgers, The State University of New Jerse | 2017 |
| Grace | O’Connell | University of California, Berkeley | 2017 |
| Michelle | O’Malley | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2017 |
| Emily | Pentzer | Case Western Reserve University | 2017 |
| Javier | Read de Alaniz | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2017 |
| Megan | Robertson | University of Houston | 2017 |
| Dwight | Seferos | University of Toronto | 2017 |
| Rudy | Wojtecki | IBM | 2017 |
| Yan | Xia | Stanford University | 2017 |
