Awards and Honors

SELECTED AWARDS and HONORS FOR GREESHMA GADIKOTA

Academic Recognition

  • 2024 Women’s Chemists Committee (WCC) Rising Star Award for excellence in the scientific enterprise awarded by the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2024)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2022)
  • Army Research Office Early Career Award (2022)
  • DOE CAREER award from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (2019)
  • Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award (2021)
  • 2024 Women’s Chemists Committee (WCC) Rising Star Award for excellence in the scientific enterprise awarded by the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2023)
  • ACS Energy and Fuels Rising Stars (2022)
  • Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award (2022)
  • Frontiers of Energy Research Rising Stars (2021)
  • Minerals 2020 Young Investigator Award (2020)
  • National Academy of Engineering’s 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Golden, CO (2020)
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Sabic Young Professional Award by the Particle Technology Forum (2020)
  • Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Harvard-Radcliffe Lecture in Next in Climate Series (2022)
  • Inaugural Young Researcher Award, The 15th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering Conference (2022)

Recognition for journal articles and scientific leadership

  • Invited to contribute to Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators Collection 2024 (2024)
  • Environmental Science: Nano (RSC) article on CO2 in nanoconfinement chosen in the Themed Special Collection on the Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases (2022)
  • Communications Chemistry (Nature) article chosen in 2021 Editors’ Highlights Collection and Special Collection Celebrating International Women’s Day in 2022
  • Invited speaker in the 2021 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Meeting hosted by NAE, OakRidge, TN (2021)
  • Sigma Xi, nominated for full membership (2020)
  • AFRL Summer Faculty Fellow (2021)
  • Thrust Lead on Dynamic Characterization for DOE-Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC), Multi-scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials (MUSE) (2018-2024)
  • Invited Speaker, National Academy of Science Workshop on Subsurface Geological Capture and Storage of CO2, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (2017)

Recognition for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship

  • Semi-finalist, DOE Direct Air Capture Pre – Commercial Technology Prize (2023)
  • Winner of the Equalize Pitch Competition in the Physical Sciences Section (2023)
  • Cornell Rising Women Innovator Award (Inaugural Awardee) (2022)
  • Winner of the Eclectic Convergence Pitch for Startups from Academia Organized by Cornell E-Lab (2022)
  • Frontier/Stripe Climate funding of $ 500,000 for commercializing carbon removal technologies (2022)
  • Startup from Gadikota Research Group, Carbon To Stone was accepted into the Praxis Center for Venture Development (2022)
  • Hassnain Asgar from Gadikota Research Group was awarded IGNITE postdoctoral commercialization award

Service Recognition

  • Frontiers in Energy Research Outstanding Associate Editor Award (2022)
  • Elected Vice Chair (2023) and Chair (2023) of the Gordon Research Conference in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Awards Prior to Independent Research Career

  • Best Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows, Carbon Mitigation Initiative led by Princeton University and British Petroleum (BP) (2018)
  • Selected as “Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars” by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA (2015)
  • Selected as the Best Presentation in “Novel Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Pathways for Sustainable Energy and Environment I” Session, The 12th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering, New York, NY (2015)
  • Selected as the Best Presentation in “Carbon Capture, Control and Sequestration” Session, AICHE Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2012)
  • Outstanding Reviewer Recognition by Chemical Engineering Science and Desalination (2015)
  • Travel Grant to perform neutron scattering experiments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (2016)
  • Travel Grant to attend The Gordon Research Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (2015)
  • Travel Grant awarded by Earth Institute, Columbia University (2010)

Awards as an undergraduate student

  • Society of Women Engineers Outstanding Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Award, Michigan State University (2007)
  • Best Michigan State University Entry in the 2007 AIChE Student Contest Problem for Senior Design (2007)
  • Dean’s List (every semester from Fall 2003 to Spring 2007)
  • Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientific Research Award, Michigan State University (2006)
  • AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award, Michigan State University (2005)
  • The Molly Brennan and Willian Devlin Endowed Scholarship (2006)
  • Maurice G. and Sara V. Larian Scholarship (2006, 2005)
  • William F. Uhl Scholarship (2005)
  • Dorothy Widick Memorial Scholarship (2004)
  • Honors College Excellence Scholarship Awarded for Incoming Freshmen (2003-2007)

SELECTED STUDENT AWARDS and HONORS

Hassnain Asgar, PhD Student (Graduated in 2022 and Co-founder of startup from Gadikota Research Group, Carbon To Stone)

  • Recipient of the Cornell IGNITE postdoctoral research associate award for commercializing technology through startup, Carbon2Stone (2022).
  • Recipient of the outstanding presentation award in the DOE EFRC MUSE All Hands Meeting (2020)
  • Elected member of the Editorial Board of the DOE EFRC Newsletter (2020)
  • Travel Grant to attend the Advanced Photon Source/Center for Nanoscale Materials (APS/CNM) Users Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory (2019)
  • Travel Grant to perform neutron scattering experiments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (2019)
  • Selected to attend the Summer School for Neutron and X-Ray Scattering (2019)

Sohaib Mohammed, PhD Student (Graduated in 2021)

  • Recipient of the outstanding presentation award at the DOE EFRC MUSE All Hands Meeting (2020)

Prince Ochonma, PhD Student (Graduated in 2024)

  • Awarded the Link Foundation Energy Fellowship from Dartmouth College (2022 – 2024)
  • Selected to attend the Summer School for Neutron and X-Ray Scattering (2021)
  • Awarded Cornell Atkinson Small Grant (2020) – $ 7,000
  • Featured in the Cornell Engineering Spotlight (2020)

Shardul Prabhu, PhD Student

  • Awarded the Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellowship to explore opportunities and challenges in scaling up sustainable climate, energy, and environmental technologies (2024 – 2025)

Rajashekhar Marthi, Postdoctoral Research Associate (2022 – present)

  • Led the team that is one of the top five finalists in the American Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize (2022)

Meishen Liu, PhD Student (Graduated in 2021)

  • Selected as Cornell Commercialization Fellow and participant in the NSF I-Corps Program (2020)
  • Travel Grant to covering travel and registration to attend and present at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (2019)
  • Travel Grant to perform neutron scattering experiments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (2018)
  • Second place in the Grainger Institute of Engineering Poster Session, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2018)
  • Becker Travel Supplements Award to ACS Spring 2018 Meeting (2018)

Erin Elizabeth Huang, Undergraduate Student in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Cornell University (Graduated in 2022)

  • Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Fellow (Fall 2020) – $ 5,000
  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award supported by Phillips 66 (Spring 2020) – $ 500
  • Accepted into Harvard Business School 2+2 Program; currently working for BP

Allison Hohenshil, Undergraduate Student, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Cornell University (Graduated in 2023)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Summer 2020) – $ 3,000 supported by Air Products
  • Summer Internship with AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Laboratory (Summer 2021)
  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Fall 2021) – $ 1,050
  • Working for Air Products and Chemicals

Claire Blaudeau (Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Summer 2020) – $ 4,500 supported by John A. Swanson ’61, MBE ’62, MME ’63
  • Awarded Cornell Atkinson Small Grant (2020) – $ 1,000

Akanksha Srivastava (Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Undergraduate Research Excellence Award by the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association (Spring 2022) – $ 1,000
  • Awarded first place in the North-East Region for the DOE EnergyTech University Prize (2023)
  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Summer 2021) – $ 5,600
  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Spring 2022) – $ 2,600

Christopher Noe (NSF LSAMP student from Suffolk Community College)

  • Cornell Engineering NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Recipient (Summer 2021, Summer 2022) – ~ $ 9,000 per summer

Ajay Krishna Sunkara (Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Summer 2021) – $ 7,400
  • Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability – Academic Venture Fund Supplement for Undergraduate Researchers (Summer 2021) – $ 3,500

Alicia Wagner (Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability – Academic Venture Fund Supplement for Undergraduate Researchers (Summer 2021) – $ 3,500

Amy Wu (Undergraduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Spring 2024) – $ 800
  • Army Educational Outreach Program (Summer 2023) – $ 4,500

Trent Donaldson (Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Fall 2023) – $ 1,980

Ronin Ford (Undergraduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Undergraduate Research Award (Fall 2024) – $ 1,950

Sahil Patel (Undergraduate Student, Cornell University)

  • Army Educational Outreach Program (Summer 2023) – $ 4,500

Leo Huntington (Undergraduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University)

  • Army Educational Outreach Program (Summer 2024) – $ 4,500

High school students mentored through the Army Educational Outreach Program

  • Rohan Gupta (Summer 2024) and Tariq Kupferberg (Summer 2023 and 2024)