Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

 

Under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Humboldt Research Fellowship supports scientists and scholars from diverse academic and geographical backgrounds. Its primary objective is to facilitate international research collaborations between German research institutions and counterparts abroad. Scientists and scholars can spend up to 18 months in Germany at their choice institution.

 

Dou has elected to spend his fellowship in two separate trips – four months in 2024 and three months in 2025. He will be working at the University of Cologne, hosted by Malte Gather, the head of the NanoBioPhotonics Research Centre at the university. While there, Dou intends to focus on creating collaborations on organic and perovskite semiconductor exciton-polariton devices.

 

His domestic work has most recently included breakthroughs in organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskite (OSiP) materials development for optoelectronics and photonics applications. The Letian Dou Group has also discovered new mechanisms in OSiP materials, enhancing light emission and amplification, and ultimately generating opportunities for low-cost lasers. This work has since won him the 2023 Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research.

 

In addition to Dou’s 2023 Faculty Excellence Award, his work has been recognized with a Young Investigator award from the Office of Naval Research, an NSF CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, the 2022 Owens Corning Early Career Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the 2022 Rising Star Award from the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.

 

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