Todd Gingrich awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
May 14, 2024
Todd Gingrich was awarded a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Gingrich is assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation award recipients are faculty who, within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
Gingrich’s research applies analytical and computational methods to problems in statistical mechanics, stochastic thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and biophysics. In particular, his research seeks principles and numerical techniques to describe nonequilibrium chemical dynamics. Inspired by biological systems that utilize chemical fuels to drive nonequilibrium processes, his research aims to develop tools that can aid in the design of artificial systems with similar capabilities.
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