Principal Investigator
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Meet our PI: Awards and Significant Honors
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