Each year IMOD issues a call for Seed awards. The goal is to bring in new investigators and collaborations with existing members of the IMOD community to foster vibrant new ideas and approaches in what we are investigating and how we are doing science. In September 2023 we announced the new awards, which are a mixture of new investigators and continuations from previous years.
Find out more about about the 2023 cohort below.
Matt Beard – CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Cossairt and Marder Groups
Project title: Interconversion between charge, spin and light in solution processable semiconductors using symmetry breaking chiral motifs
Marie-Christine Daniel – UMBC
Collaboration with the Pelton Group
Project title: A Novel Route for Highly Luminescent Water-Soluble Quantum Dots to Enable Quantum Applications
Gordana Dukovic – CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Cossairt, Talapin and Toney Groups
Project Renewal: Probing novel III-V nanocrystals at the single-particle and ensemble levels
David Jonas – CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Owen Group
Project Renewal: Disentangling quantum dot luminescence lineshapes to elucidate dynamical broadening
Aditya Mohite – Rice
Collaboration with the Cossairt and Gamelin, Kanatzidis and Ginger Groups
Project title: Engineering electrically driven single-photon sources based on perovskite quantum-dots in a perovskite matrix
Andres Montoya-Castillo – CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Marder and Toney Groups
Project Title: Deciphering how passivating ligands control quantum dot surface phonons & lineshapes
Charles Musgrave – CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Marder Group
Project Renewal: Tuning Perovskite Quantum Dots Through the Rashba Effect for Next Generation Optoelectronics
Rahul Trivedi – U Washington
Collaboration with the Majumdar Group
Project Title: Quantum-enhanced spectroscopy with solid-state photon sources