Faculty FacultyHeather J. KulikAssociate Professor phone617-253-4584emailhjkulik@mit.eduroom66-464 Research Website Support StaffHannah Cross Chemical engineering enables me to design molecules atom-by-atom from first-principles. It inspires me not just to understand enzymes but to unearth mechanisms that we may leverage from some of the fastest known catalysts. Research Interests catalysis, transition-metal chemistry, electronic structure methods, atomistic simulations, enzyme catalysis Education Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009 B.E., The Cooper Union, 2004 Publications Honors and Awards AIChE CoMSEF Impact Award, 2023 Hans-Fischer Senior Fellowship, 2023 MSDE Outstanding Early-Career Paper Award, 2021 Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry, 2021 DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award, 2020 Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Award, 2019 NSF CAREER Award, 2019 Marion Milligan Mason Award, 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018 ONR Young Investigator Award, 2018 ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2018 I&ECR, Class of 2017 Influential Researcher, 2017 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, 2012-2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 2004-2008 William C. and Esther Hoffman Beller Prize for Excellence in Chemical Engineering, 2004 United States Presidential Scholar, 2000
