The Coblentz Society has created an award to recognize young individuals who have made significant contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy.
The Craver Award is presented annually to an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist whose efforts are in the area of applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. The candidate must be under the age of 45 on January 1st of the year of the award. The work may include any aspect of infrared (NIR, MIR, or Far), and/or THz, and/or Raman spectroscopy in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. The nominees may come from an academic, government lab, or industrial backgrounds. Click here for information on the Coblentz Society Craver Award.
Wei Min
De. Wei Min is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University. After graduating from Peking University in 2003, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2008 studying single-molecule biophysics with Prof. Sunney Xie. After continuing his postdoctoral work in Xie group, Dr. Min joined the faculty at Columbia University in 2010, and was promoted to Full Professor there in 2017.
Dr. Min has made important contributions to the development of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy, and employed it to open up a broad range of applications. He has co-invented modern SRS microscopy and pushed its sensitivity down to single molecule level through stimulated Raman excited fluorescence (SREF) spectroscopy; his team has designed and synthesized Raman-active probes exhibiting rainbow-like spectral “colors”; his group has opened up applications including bioorthogonal chemical imaging of small biomolecules (such as lipids, amino acids, glucose, and drugs), metabolic activity imaging in animals, and super-multiplexed vibrational imaging.
Dr. Min's contribution has been recognized by a number of honors, including Scientific Achievement Award from the Royal Microscopical Society (2021), Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award (2019), Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2018), Coblentz Award of Molecular Spectroscopy (2017), the ACS Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry (2017), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2015), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2013), and NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2012).
Dr. Min is a co-editor of the first SRS book entitled “Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy: Techniques and Applications” with ELSEVIER; he is a standing member of Cellular and Molecular Technologies Study Section of NIH; he is a co-Chair of SPIE conference on Advanced Chemical Microscopy for Life Science and Translational Medicine; he is a senior Scialog facilitator for Research Corporation for Science Advancement on Advancing BioImaging; he is an editorial/advisory board member of several journals including Analyst, Trends in Chemistry, and Analysis & Sensing; during the pandemic, he has also served as a Guest Editor of APL Photonics on a Special Issue of COVID-19 and Photonics.
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2021 Zachary D. Schultz
2020 Claudia Conti
2019 Shawn (Xiaoyun) Chen
2018 Christy Haynes
2017 Martin Zanni
2016 Karen Faulds
2015 Ji-Xin Cheng
2014 Lynne S. Taylor
2013 Rohit Bhargava -
2012 Duncan Graham
2011 Michael W. George
2010 Boris Mizaikoff
2009 Takeshi Hasegawa
2008 John C. Conboy
2007 Katherine Bakeev