Grants

Society significantly benefits from scientific research, but it wouldn’t be possible without generous contributions from public and private sources.

This page is a testament to that support. With it, Northeastern’s College of Science has cultivated a dynamic landscape of research activity. Through a culture that emphasizes entrepreneurship, our exceptional faculty, staff, and student researchers are able to maximize the impact of their work.

The grants listed below are a preview of the science and scientists of tomorrow, who probe single cells, the outer limit of particle physics, and everything in between.

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  • 2025

    Adrian Feiguin

    Sponsor: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences
    Artificial intelligence and data enabled predictive modeling of collective phenomena in strongly correlated quantum materials Our ultimate goal is to accelerate discovery in quantum materials at DOE-supported user facilities. We will meet this goal through three specific aims. Aim 1 — generating and confirming novel low-energy effective many-body models for quantum materials — will provide…Read More
  • 2025

    Rebecca Shansky

    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    The path to the parous brain: allopregnanolone-mediated mechanisms at GABAA receptors. Pregnancy is characterized by marked changes in circulating hormones that can induce long-lasting changes in the brain. The goal of this project is to determine how the hormone allopregnanolone may induce a robust neural inhibition in the medial prefrontal cortex during pregnancy, resulting in…Read More
  • 2025

    Mingzhong Wu

    Sponsor: National Science Foundations
    EAGER: Erbium-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnets for Efficient Quantum Transduction This project aims to develop thin films of erbium-doped yttrium iron garnets and experimentally demonstrate efficient microwave photon-to-optical photon conversion. If successful, this project will lead to a new material for efficient quantum transduction. Such transduction materials can be used to entangle distant superconducting qubits and…Read More
  • 2025

    Mingzhong Wu

    Sponsor: Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
    Harnessing Topological Surface States in Dirac Semimetal alpha-Sn Thin Films This project will take advantage of topological surface states in Dirac semimetal α-Sn thin films to explore new fundamental physics and develop novel materials and devices. In particular, we will expand the current α-Sn program in terms of four focus topics: (1) new strategies for…Read More
  • 2025

    Alexander Ivanov

    Sponsor: NIH, NIGMS
    Next-generation nanoflow LC column technology to enable high sensitivity proteomics of limited samples.  Deep proteomic profiling of scarce biological and clinical samples is still a major challenge since no amplification techniques are available for proteins and proteoforms, and current state-of-the-art proteomic techniques based on conventional chromatography columns coupled with mass spectrometry provide suboptimal performance and…Read More
  • 2024

    Toyoko Orimoto

    Sponsor: Heising-Simons Foundation
    Addressing the challenges faced by mid-career physics women in collaborations This grant supports the organization of Mid-Act 2024 – a workshop that addresses the unique challenges faced by mid-career women physicists in large collaborations and subfields in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy.Read More
  • 2024

    Yizhi You

    Sponsor: NSF
    NSF CAREER Award: Emergent Phases: Fracton, Symmetry, and Decoherence Northeastern University physics assistant professor Yizhi You has been honored with the NSF CAREER award for her groundbreaking work in quantum science. The prestigious Faculty Early Career Development award comes with $600,000 in funding to support her research on the impact of symmetry and decoherence in…Read More
  • 2024

    Zhenyu Tian

    Sponsor: NSF
    ReTIRE: Research on Transformations, Implications, and Risks of End-of-life tires In this project, the investigators study the environmental transformation, fate, and impact of end-of-life tire with advanced analytical methods. The results will help us understand the risk of current tire reuse practices (e.g., crumb rubber in artificial turf) and inform better waste management and product…Read More
  • 2024

    Hai-Ping Cheng

    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Center for Coatings Research The Center for Coatings Research (CCR) has continued to make progress towards the development of low thermal noise coatings that will enable the next generation of gravitational wave detectors in the US, Cosmic Explorer (CE). The CCR combines efforts from nine US institutions, integrating coating deposition, characterization of atomic structure and…Read More
  • 2024

    Hai-Ping Cheng

    Sponsor: DOE
    EFRC: Molecular magnetic quantum materials The Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials (M2QM) provides a unique integration of advanced theory, innovative experiment, and expert chemical synthesis to design, probe, and control the quantum degrees of freedom of electron spins at the scale of molecules. Molecular spins, also known as molecular magnets, offer the potential of…Read More
  • 2024

    Dave DeSteno

    Sponsor: Templeton Foundation
    Supplement for How God Works (Seasons 3-8) This grant is a supplement to a previous grant which funds my PRX Podcast “How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality.” This supplement will cover an additional year of production.Read More
  • 2024

    Michele Di Pierro

    Sponsor: NSF
    A Computational Approach to Study the Structural Ensembles of Genes Genomes fold into distinct architectures that reflect both the cell’s phase and type, with the spatial organization of genes playing a crucial role in facilitating physical interactions among genetic regulatory elements. These interactions are essential for gene regulation within organisms and tissues. This project aims…Read More

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