EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY: DR. ANDRES CISNEROS
Chemistry research professor Dr. Andres Cisneros recently received the 2019 UNT Early Career Award for Research and Creativity from the Office of Research and Innovation. Accord to the Faculty Success website, the "award is given to a full-time University faculty member within their first 10 years in a full-time appointment whose research accomplishments or creative endeavors have been outstanding and whose scholarly/creative products are considered to have had high impact in the faculty member's discipline and/or on society."
Dr. Cisneros joined UNT in 2016 and was promoted to a Full Professor in 2019. Dr. Cisneros has received numerous honors and awards for research and teaching including the Dell-Intel Young Investigator Award, the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and Excellence in Teaching with special commendation for encouraging undergraduate research from Wayne State, among others. He was invited to participate in the National Strategic Computing Initiative at the White House in 2016 and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor by the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2018. He is funded by NIH with a single PI R01, co-PI on another R01, and single Pl on an award from the NVDIA Foundation. Dr. Cisneros is a charter member of the MSFD review panel at NIH/CSR. The Cisneros research group develops and applies computational methods to investigate a broad range of chemical and biochemical systems.
TOULOUSE SCHOLAR AWARD: DR. FRANCIS D'SOUZA
Chemistry research professor Dr. Francis D'Souza recently received the Toulouse Scholar Award from the Toulouse Graduate School. According to the Faculty Success website, the award "is designed to recognize the excellent teaching and scholarly/creative achievements of members of the University of North Texas faculty and thereby honor the distinguished contributions of Robert B. Toulouse to the university."
Dr. Francis D'Souza is a University Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering. He is part of UNT's Applied Materials and Manufacturing Processing Institute (AMMPI). Dr. D'Souza's research covers wide areas of chemistry, nanophotonics and materials science. Principal research interests include supra and nanomolecular chemistry of photosensitizer-carbon nanomaterials, advanced functional materials for light energy harvesting and photovoltaics, electrochemical and photochemical sensors and catalysts, nanocomposite hybrid materials for energy storage. He has over 400 publications and edited 10 handbooks on Carbon Nanomaterials resulting in over 15,700 citations with an h-index of 67. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyaninesand the Journal of Electrochemical Society, and editorial board member of few other journals. Honors and Award include Doherty Research Award for the ACS-DFW Section; Fulbright Specialist Scholar; GIAN Fellow, India; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow; Fellow of the Electrochemistry Society; among others.
Drs. Cisneros & D'Souza were both honored at the Salute to Faculty Excellence Dinner and Award Ceremony in April 2019.
You can visit the 2019 SFE Award Winners page for a list of all of the award winners honored at the ceremony: https://vpaa.unt.edu/fs/recognition/awards-2019