ICMR : International Center for Materials Research | International Research Fellowships

The application consists of a 1-page research proposal describing the collaborative work to be pursued and emphasizing the nature and motivation of the international component, a short CV and (for students and postdocs) a letter of support from the advisor. The application materials should be sent to the ICMR Program Coordinator, sorensen@mrl.ucsb.edu. Applications are evaluated twice a year, in spring and fall. The fall deadline to submit an application is October 31st. The spring deadline to submit an application is April 30th. Applications received from May through October will be considered during the next application cycle in October 2014. Our funding structure prioritizes collaborations with countries that are not in Western Europe.

Boris Dyatkin	University of Technology in Dalian, China
Kurt Harris	University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland
Jay Logan	Lund University, Sweden
Kenneth Mineart	Kiyushu University, Japan
Lily Nguyen	Karlsruhrer Institute fur Technologie
Kalvis Terauds	Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Brij Tewari	University of California, Santa Barbara
Jaime Torres	University of Wollongong, Australia
Rebecca Wilson	University of Strasbourg, France

9 International Research Fellowships were awarded in Spring 2013:

Gracia El Ayle, Georgetown University	CEA/CNRS in France
Michael Ignatowich, California Institute of Technology	Shanghai Institute of Ceramics at the Chinese Academy of Science, China
Kristina Knesting, University of Washington	Imperial College of London
Victoria Miller, UC Santa Barbara	Monash University, Australia
Apu Sarkar, North Carolina State University	University of Budapest, Hungary
Elham Sadeghmoghaddam, University of Hawaii	Institute for Energy Technology in Norway
Tolou Shokuhfar, Michigan Technology Univ.	Biomaterials Research Unit, University of Sidney
Zhongnan Xu, Carnegie Mellon University	Denmark Technical University, Denmark
Peter Wells, UC Santa Barbara	Oxford University, England

13 International Research Fellowships were awarded in Fall 2012:

Chris Proctor, UC Santa Barbarba	University of Postdam, Germany
Shelly Arreguin, University of Washington, Seattle	Slovak Academy of Sciences
Fatma Cakmak, Pennsylvania State University	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Matthew Curnan, Carnegie Mellon University	University of Seul, Korea
Tyler Drye, University of Maryland	Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Ievgen Govor, University of Puerto Rico	Institute of Materials Sci., Athens, Greece
Jason Grebenkemper, UC Davis	Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Alexandra Holmes, UC Davis	Universitat zu Koln, Germany
Michael Holmes, UC Davis	Klaus Meerhotz Lab, Germany
Chris Kane, Georgetown University	University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Sahil Patel, UC Santa Barbara	Lund Univ of Sweeden
Daniel Rubin, Harvard University	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Trevor Safko, Georgetown University	Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Estadual, Brazil

14 International Research Fellowships were awarded in Fall 2011:

Rebeca Arburto-Romero, Rice University	Bio Nano Electronics Research Center at Tokyo University, Japan
Chris Broomell, UC Santa Barbara	Nanyang Technlological University (NTU) in Singapore
Philip Brunner, Northwestern University	Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen Stockholm, Sweden
Aviel Chaimovich, UC Santa Barbara	Ben-Gurion University in Israel
Elizabeth Clark, UC Santa Barbara	University of Sydney
Joanna Deek, UC Santa Barbara	Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany
Matthias Ehmke, Purdue University	University of New South Wales in Sidney, Australia
Kevin Kirshenbaum, University of Maryland	UniversitÃ© de Sherbrooke, Canada
David Poerschke, UC Santa Barbara	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Reza Shabhazian-Yassar, Michigan Technology University	NIMS, Japan
Tedi-Marie Usher, Michigan Technology University	University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia
Alexis Vallee-Belisle, UC Santa Barbara	Howard Hospital in rural Zimbabwe
Gesine Veite, UC Santa Barbara	University of Munich
Natasha Vermaak, UC Santa Barbara	SIMaP-Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Physico-Chimie Metallurgiques, Grenoble

8 International Research Fellowships were awarded in Spring 2011:

Juliana Ostos, UCSB	Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
John Berezney, UCSB	University of Amsterdam
Justin Poelma, UCSB	Korea University, Seoul
Jain Siddharth, UCSB	University of College Cork, Ireland
Stephen Donaldson, UCSB	Leibniz Institute for Polmer Research in Dresden, Germany
Jarad Mason, UC Berkeley	University of Insubria, Italy
Julie Karel, UC Berkeley	Fermi@Elettra FEL facility in Trieste, Italy
James Rogers, UCSB	Kyoto Institute of Technology

23 International Research Fellowships were awarded in Fall and Spring of 2010:

Shibu Abraham, Georgetown	Campinas, Brazil
Tonya Atkins, UC Davis	University of Cologne
Erich Bucholz, University of Florida	École Centrale de Lyon
Kevin Chasse, Georgia Tech	VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
Matthew Enlow, Colorado School of Mines	POSTEC, South Korea
Keisuke Fukatini, University of Nebraska	Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center
Zachary Henson, UCSB	National University of Singapore
Augusta Hofstead-Duffy, Goergetown	Xiamen University
Kyle Horne, Utah State University	University of Toronto
Colby Jensen, Utah State University	Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Jason Kawasaki, UCSB	Lund University, Sweden
Jessica Krogstad, UCSB	University of Sydney
Amanda McDermott, Penn State	Bragg Institute
Alexander Melville, Cornell	University of Augsburg
Pan Mengchun, Northwestern University	Max Planck Institute
Kennet Rivero, University of Puerto Rico	Institute of Materials Science, Greece
J. Ronevich, Colorado School of Mines	POSTECH, South Korea
Adrian Garcia Sega, UC San Diego	University of Auckland, New Zealand
Richelle Thomas, University of Texas	University of West Indies, Barbados
Amanda Trent, UC Berkeley	Queensland Institute
James Wilson, Northwestern University	RISO DTU, Denmark

Other Exchange Opportunities

In addition to the highly competitive Fellowships program, US-based graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members can apply for travel support for research internships in non-US laboratories. Longer internships, and those not in Western Europe are given priority. In these cases we ask that the local hosts cover local expenses.

The ICMR Director, Tresa Pollock (pollock@engineering.ucsb.edu) or Program Coordinator sorensen@mrl.ucsb.edu) will be pleased to discuss any ideas or questions.