Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

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 The Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry for 2025 will be presented to Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Chemisty and Biochemistry,  for outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding and development of organic solar cells for green energy generation. It will be presented at the National Awards Ceremony at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego on March 25, 2025.

Short Biography

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nguyen received her B.S. (1997), M.S. (1998), and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. From 2001-2004, she was a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with 2023 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Louis Brus and Professor Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and devices. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris on molecular electronics. She joined the faculty of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCSB in 2004. 

Her research interests are organic semiconductors, bioelectronics, physics of optoelectronic devices, and sustainability.

She is co-authored over 315 publications and 3 book chapters that received over 40,000 citations (H-index: 103) and gave over 350 plenary/keynote/invited talks at national and international conferences, universities, and companies. Recognition for her research includes Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Alfred Sloan Research Fellows, 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellows, Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Hall of Fame - Advanced Materials, Beaufort Visiting Scholar at St John’s College (Cambridge University), 2015-2019 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds; Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Wilhelm Exner Medal from Austria, Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, de Gennes Prize in Materials Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Elected Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Chimie Ambassador in Chemical Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and ACS Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry. 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-10301-awards4
The award  is supported by an endowed fund established by the ACS Division of Energy and Fuels
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