Poornima Padmanabhan, an Indian American professor of chemical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, reported RIT in a press
Scientists look to space for origins of the solar system; chemical engineers like Poornima Padmanabhan are searching for the origins of life based on minute systems of molecules. Padmanabhan recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for “Chirality and polymer thermodynamics: frustration and amplification.”