Schoop receives 2019 Beckman Young Investigator Award

Leslie M. Schoop, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is one of ten members of the 2019 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees, conferred by The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to early career faculty members across the US. 

The Schoop Lab works at the interface between chemistry and physics, using chemical principles to find new materials with exotic physical properties.

“Our new 2019 BYI awardees are tackling a broad range of challenges, from production of sustainable plastics and batteries, to new rapid genetic screening techniques for cancer therapies, to modeling of magnetic quantum materials, among others,” shared Dr. Anne Hultgren, Executive Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. “We’re very excited to welcome these exceptional scientists to the Beckman family, and look forward to seeing their progress over the next few years.”

Selected from a pool of over 300 applicants, the awardees “exemplify the Foundation’s mission of supporting the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.” This year’s award offers $600,000 in funding over four years to each of the awardees.

Located in Irvine, California, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports researchers and nonprofit research institutions in making the next generation of breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences. Founded in 1978 by 20th century scientific instrumentation pioneer Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, the Foundation supports United States institutions and young scientists whose creative, high-risk, and interdisciplinary research will lead to innovations and new tools and methods for scientific discovery. For more information, visit beckman-foundation.org.