Awards,Discovery Sciencechemistry08/06/2024Demir receives NSF CAREER AwardCombining chemistry and art, Selvan Demir has earned new support for her team’s ‘exceptionally creative’ research
  • Selvan Demir, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has won a $770,000 Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Award from the National Science Foundation.
  • With the grant, Demir and her team will use underexplored elements from the periodic table as building blocks as they attempt to create the first classes of room temperature single-molecule magnets.
  • These magnets have the potential to enable new high density data storage and quantum computing technologies, accelerating the pace of calculations and simulations used in a variety of fields.
Mollie NewmanSelvan Demir poses for a photo while working with her arms inside a glovebox.