Principal Investigator

Monica Olvera de la Cruz


Meet our PI: Awards and Significant Honors

  • 2024 G.N. Lewis Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2023 Mulliken Prize, University of Chicago
  • 2020 Guillermo Soberon Award
  • 2020 Member, American Philosophical Society
  • 2017 Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society
  • 2016 Miller Institute Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2012 Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 Special Civil Merit Award, State of Guerrero, Mexico
  • 2010 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010-15 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
  • 2007 Engineering and Applied Sciences Cozzarelli Prize, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 Visiting Professor, Service de Physique Theorique, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, CE-Saclay, France
  • 2001 Fellow, American Physical Society
  • 1993 Visiting Scientist, Service de Chimie Moleculaire, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, CE-Saclay, France
  • 1990-95 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
  • 1990-92 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
  • 1989-94 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
  • 1988-93 FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health
  • 1981-84 UNAM scholarship from the Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico, Mexico, held at Cambridge University, England
  • 1982-84 Overseas Research Scholarship award (ORS-award) England, Cambridge University, England
  • 1981-82 Graduate Studies Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge University, England (declined)
  • 1979-81 Conacyt-UNAM scholarship, Mexico, held at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico


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    Contact info

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering
    2220 Campus Drive, Silverman Hall Rm 4621
    Evanston, IL 60208 | Phone: (847) 491-7801
    m-olvera@northwestern.edu