Awards

Wing Tsang Early Career Award in Chemical Kinetics

We are happy to announce that Dr Rebecca Caravan of Argonne National Laboratory has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Wing Tsang Early Career Award. Dr Caravan will receive the award and deliver the Wing Tsang Early Career Investigator Plenary Lecture at the conference.

Rebecca Caravan is a Chemist in the Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase Group at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research focuses on the fundamental kinetics and mechanisms of reactive intermediates (such as carbonyl oxide Criegee intermediates and peroxy radicals) and their tropospheric impacts, via direct laboratory studies using both tabletop and synchrotron techniques. Before joining Argonne, she read Chemistry at the University of Bristol, received her PhD from the University of Leeds, was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and an NPP fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Wing Tsang Early Career Award, to be presented in 2025 at the 13th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics. The Wing Tsang Early Career Award recognizes the contributions of an early career researcher in the field of chemical kinetics. This prestigious early career award will be presented biennially at the ICCK meeting, during which the recipient will also present the Wing Tsang Early Career Investigator Plenary Lecture. This award recognizes excellence in chemical kinetics research, the potential for future leadership in the field and service to the kinetics community.

Wing Tsang’s outstanding technical contributions to chemical kinetics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) centered on combustion chemistry and shock tube experiments. His leadership was essential in creating the evaluated chemical kinetics databases that continue to have tremendous impact on the broader kinetics community. Wing, together with John T. Herron (chair) helped found the ICCK in 1985.

Dr. Wing Tsang in 1962 (the photo is courtesy of the NIST Research Library and Museum).

Criteria for the Wing Tsang Early Career Award

The awardee must be an early career investigator within 10 years of their terminal degree as of the conference date.
The awardee’s research interests should be in one or several aspects (i. e. experimental, theoretical, and modeling) in fundamental or applied chemical kinetics.
The awardee must have been an active participant in past ICCK conference/conferences.
The awardee must demonstrate research excellence and impact in fundamental or applied chemical kinetics, the potential for future leadership, and service to the chemical kinetics community.
The awardee must be available to present the Wing Tsang Plenary Lecture at the ICCK conference.

Timeline for nominations

Deadline for nominations is February 1, 2025. Deadline extended to February 15, 2025
Nomination packages, consisting of a short CV (2 pages), a list of up to 10 influential publications, a letter of nomination (2 pages max), and one supporting letter, should be sent to Kevin Van Geem, chair of the Standing Committee of the ICCK, at Kevin.VanGeem@Ugent.be. Self-nominations are not permitted.
The award will be decided by the standing committee of the ICCK. Members of the standing committee may not nominate or support a candidate.

We are soliciting donations to fund this award for the next 20 years. If you are interested in making a donation in honor of Wing Tsang and to encourage excellence in Chemical Kinetics, please contact our Treasurer, Bill Green (whgreen@mit.edu).

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