Research in the Caram Group is generously supported by the following federal agencies, foundations, and university programs. We are grateful for their support.
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Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Grant FA9550261B170, PI, 2026–2027
“Developing Ultrabright HgTe Quantum Dots in the Shortwave Infrared”
National Science Foundation
Grant 2622650 (NSF–UKRI), PI, 2026–2029
“Exploring Molecular Lanthanides as Optical Qubits using Coherent Optical Spectroscopies”
National Science Foundation
Grant CHE-2506132, Co-PI, 2018–2028
“Engineering cyanine aggregation and self-assembly to access exceptionally red-shifted organic chromophores”
Cottrell Foundation Bridge Award
PI, 2025–2026
“Single Nanocrystal Spectroscopy in the Shortwave Infrared”
Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
PI, 2025–2030
“Atomic Physics in a Beaker”
University of California, Office of the President (MRPI)
Co-PI, 2023–2026
“California Interfacial Science Institute (CISI)”
California NanoSystems Institute, Noble Innovation Grant
Co-PI, 2022–2027
“Approach Shockley-Queisser limit in CdTe solar cells with pinning-free van der Waals contacts”
National Science Foundation
Grant MCB-2105474, Co-PI, 2021–2027
“RCN: Instrumentation for Quantum Biology (I-QuBio)”
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Sloan Foundation
PI, 2023–2025
“Research in the Caram Group”
National Science Foundation
Grant CHE-2221453, Co-PI, 2022–2025
“CCI Phase 1: NSF Center for Advanced Molecular Architectures for Quantum Information Science”
Dreyfus Foundation, Teacher-Scholar Award
PI, 2022–2027
“Exploring the extremes of excitonic photophysics”
National Science Foundation
Grant CHE-1945572, PI, 2019–2025
“CAREER: New Probes of Heterogeneity in Next-Generation Nanocrystal Emitters”
ACS-Petroleum Research Foundation, Doctoral New Investigator
PI, 2021–2023
“Accessing Forbidden Excited States Through Direct Spectral and Temporal Resolution of Weak Photoemission”
Research Corporation, Cottrell Scholarship
PI, 2021–2024
“Chemical Physics Informed Design of SWIR Emissive Molecules”
National Science Foundation
Grant CHE-1905242, Co-PI, 2019–2022
“Engineering cyanine aggregation and self-assembly to access exceptionally red-shifted organic chromophores”
Department of Energy
Grant DE-SC0019245, Co-PI, 2018–2022
“Molecules Functionalized with Optical Cycling Centers for Quantum Information Science”
Faculty Career Development Award
PI, 2019–2020
“Temperature Dependent SWIR Spectroscopy for Nanocrystal Development”
UCLA Council of Research Faculty Research Grant
2019–2020
“Using Supramolecular Aggregates to Create Reactive Oxygen Species”
UCLA Council of Research Faculty Research Grant
2018
“Using supramolecular dye aggregates as photochemical antenna templates to create metallic nanowires”
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