Recognition

Congratulations to Darian Hall on the Stephan Halley White Undergraduate Research Award 2022 received in recognition of his outstanding research project.

Ivan Smalyukh has been elected as winner of 2021 Langmuir Lectureship Award from Langmuir and the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry The award recognizes individuals working in the interdisciplinary field of colloid and surface chemistry. See more...

Ivan Smalyukh has been elected as a Fellow of SPIE for his scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. He is honored for his technical achievements and his service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular. See more...

Our team was selected as the winner of 2018 NASA iTech Energy Cycle for its innovative energy projects and ideas. Videostream of 2018 NASA iTech Cycle II Energy Forum.

Ivan Smalyukh has been selected as the recipient of the ILCS Mid-Career Award (Samsung & LG) at the 27 th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2018) to be held in Kyoto in recognition of his outstanding research achievements and making significant contributions to the liquid crystal science and technology.

Our team, iFeather, led by Prof. Ivan Smalyukh was selected as a Top 10 NASA iTech Energy Cycle Finalist to present game-changing technologies at a forum in New York in June 2018. The 2018 NASA iTech Cycle II Energy is a collaborative effort between NASA and the U.S. Department (DOE)...

Ivan Smalyukh was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for seminal contributions to the physics of liquid crystal colloids, topological solitons, and related soft matter systems.

Ivan Smalyukh receives the GSOFT Award for Soft Matter Research

Ivan Smalyukh receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in recognition of his accomplishments in research and teaching.

Ivan Smalyukh, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder and a founding fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), has been awarded a 2013 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.