Current Funding
Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Heavy Element Program, 2023-2026, PI
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Prior Funding
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Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Heavy Element Program, 2020-2023, PI
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Department of Energy Early Career Award Program, 2015-2020, PI
“Exploring Covalency in the Actinides Using Soft Donor-Based Ligands and Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonding”
Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 2017-2020, PI
“Laser Based Plasma Studies of Nuclear Fireball Chemistry”
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Student Fellowship Program, 2015-2020, co-PI
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Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Nuclear Forensics Junior Faculty Award Program, 2011-2016, PI
“Actinide Coordination Chemistry for Predictive Capability and Signature Analysis”
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, 2012-2014, co-PI
“Synthesis and Characterization of Covalently-Bonded Lanthanide Complexes”
Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Nuclear Forensics Summer School, 2012 and 2014, PI and co-PI
Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant Program, 2013, PI
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Faculty Development Grant, 2011-2013, co-PI
“University of Missouri-Columbia Radiochemistry Faculty Development Program in Actinide Chemistry”
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University of Missouri College of Arts & Science Alumni Organization Faculty Incentive Grant, 2011 and 2013, PI
2011 – “Synthesis and Characterization of New Silver and Gold Complexes”
2013 – “Are Two Metals Better Than One? Synthesis of Homo- and Heterobimetallic Complexes”
University of Missouri Research Council Grant, 2011, PI
“Cyclic Voltammetry of Transition Metal Complexes: Implications of Metalloenzymes”
University of Missouri Research Board, 2011, PI
“Molecular Actinide Chemistry for Non-Proliferation Techniques”
Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Nuclear Forensics Education Award Program, 2010-2012, startup funds