Each year, IMOD Seed Grants bring in new investigators and collaborations with current 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 2025, IMOD announced its Year 5 Seed Grant awards, which support a mixture of new investigators and continuations of previously-awarded projects.
Find out more about about the 2025 IMOD Seed Grants below.
Guoxiang (Emma) Hu | Georgia Tech
Collaboration with the Correa-Baena, Kagan, and Kanatzidis Groups
Project title: Understanding and Controlling Photoluminescence Linewidth Broadening in 2D Perovskites
Lih Lin | UW
Collaboration with the Ginger Group
Project title: Machine Learning-Enabled High-Bandwidth Optical Data Communication for Perovskite LEDs
Eran Rabani | UC Berkeley
Collaboration with the Dukovic and Talapin Groups
Project Title: Linear and Nonlinear Response of Nanocrystal Quantum Dots
Sadegh Yazdi | CU Boulder
Collaboration with the Cossairt, Dukovic, Marder, and Talapin Groups
Project Title: Atomic-Scale Correlation of Composition, Structure and Optical Properties in Colloidal Quantum Dots