California Institute of Technology

2026–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: United States Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (CLOUD) Consortium

Richard Flagan · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$500.7k

2026–2028 · research · Innovative Project Award

Microscale Endovascular Interface for Closed-Loop Cerebrovascular Tone Modulation

Anqi Zhang · California Institute of Technology · funded by American Heart Association

$200k

2026–2028 · award

Decoding Brain-Sparing in Fetal Hypoxia: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Microvessel Imaging of Cardiocerebral Flow

Donghyeon Oh · California Institute of Technology · funded by American Heart Association

155.3k

2026 · prize · New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize - Vesselin Dimitrov

Vesselin Dimitrov · California Institute of Technology · funded by Breakthrough Prize Foundation

$50k

2026–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: AIMing: Synergistic Advancement of AI and Mathematics

Sergei Gukov · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$400k

2026 · prize · New Horizons in Physics Prize

2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize - W. L. Kimmy Wu

W. L. Kimmy Wu · California Institute of Technology · funded by Breakthrough Prize Foundation

$16.7k

2026–2030 · award

Mechanisms of the replication stress response

Daniel Semlow · California Institute of Technology · funded by American Cancer Society

946k

2026 · fellowship · Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship

Synthesis of Biodegradable Plastics by Engineered Enzymes Enabled by Machine Learning

Ethan Quinn · California Institute of Technology · funded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2026–2031 · grant · Experimental Physics Investigators

Alireza Marandi, Experimental Physics Investigator

Alireza Marandi · California Institute of Technology · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1.3M

2026 · fellowship · F32

k-mer based local uniqueness exploration

Delaney Kalcey Sullivan · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Institutes of Health

$90.6k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Study of Potential Singularities in the Navier-Stokes Equations

Thomas Hou · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$300k

2025–2028 · fellowship · F30

Coordination of gene expression and molecular function in known pathways

Nicholas Markarian · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Institutes of Health

$54k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: A Multiwavelength View of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes

Matthew Graham · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$190.5kAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Low-noise high electron mobility transistors with outstanding noise performance via atomic layer etching

Austin Minnich · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$928.5k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: MIM: Learning how mucus shapes and maintains microbiomes

Sujit Datta · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$554.7k

2025 · prize · Blavatnik National Award - Faculty Finalist

2025 Blavatnik National Award Finalist - Faculty - Zhongwen Zhan

Zhongwen Zhan · California Institute of Technology · funded by Blavatnik Family Foundation

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

TRAILBLAZER: Electron-enhanced Atomic Layer Processing for Revolutionary Thin-film Technologies

Austin Minnich · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$3M

2025 · grant · Education

California Institute of Technology: For the Ahmanson Veterans Scholarship Initiative, 2025-2026

California Institute of Technology · funded by Ahmanson Foundation

$50k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

BSM-PM: Fundamental Studies in Nuclear Physics

Bradley Filippone · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$235kAtomic and Subatomic Physics Research

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astrophysics with LIGO

Alan Weinstein · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$200kPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

2025 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

HIGH ACCURACY ENERGIES AND PROPERTIES USING AUXILIARY FIELD QUANTUM MONTE CARLO

California Institute of Technology · funded by Office of Science

$505.9k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Mathematical Minimalism in Generative Linguistics and its Applications

Matilde Marcolli · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$250k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: A New Model of AGN Accretion Disks Dominated by Strong Magnetic Fields

Philip Hopkins · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$340.2kAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations

2025–2029 · fellowship · Hertz Fellowship

Hertz Fellowship — Edward Chen (2025)

Edward Chen · California Institute of Technology · funded by Hertz Foundation

$250k

2025 · fellowship · Gilliam Fellow Profile

Austin Brotman — HHMI Gilliam Fellow Profile (2025-Present)

Austin Brotman · California Institute of Technology · funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2025–2026 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

MEASURING ELECTRON TEMPERATURE IN THE ECLAIR EXPERIMENT

California Institute of Technology · funded by Office of Science

$298k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

ZVAR: Unlocking the Sky's Variability and Periodicity for 1.5 Billion Astronomical Objects

Matthew Graham · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$575k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

ECCS-EPSRC: Towards ultralow-noise SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors for quantum technology and beyond: epitaxial engineering of cryogenic charge transport

Austin Minnich · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$415k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Comparative Study of Biohybrid Jellyfish for Ocean Measurement

John Dabiri · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$450kMarine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology

2025–2030 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Building the PySCF Software Infrastructure for Next-Generation Electronic Structure Simulations

Garnet Chan · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$1.4MMachine Learning in Materials Science

2025 · grant · Science

Postdoctoral Fellowships

California Institute of Technology · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$2.5M

2025 · grant · Education

California Institute of Technology: Scholarship support, 2025-2026

California Institute of Technology · funded by Ahmanson Foundation

$90k

2025–2029 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

Postdoctoral Fellowship: MSPRF: Geometry of Fronts and Interfaces in Statistical Mechanics

Yujin Kim · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$190k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Unveiling the Composition of Earth-sized Planets with the Keck Planet Finder

Heather Knutson · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$102.4k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: III: Medium: Interpretable Scientific Discovery with Foundation Model Programs

Yisong Yue · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$333.7k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

WoU-MMA: Multi-messenger transients from magnetically arrested accretion onto supermassive black hole binaries

Elias Most · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$412.7kPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: BEACON: The Bellingshausen Sea, A Carbon and Overturning Nexus

Andrew Thompson · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$1.1MMarine and coastal ecosystems

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Elements: A task-based code for multiphysics problems in astrophysics at exascale

Mark Scheel · California Institute of Technology · funded by National Science Foundation

$300kPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

2025–2026 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

DESIGN ALTERMAGNETIC ORDERS IN NON-SYMMORPHIC MAGNETIC CRYSTALS

California Institute of Technology · funded by Office of Science

$875k

2025 · prize · Medicine

Wolf Prize in Medicine 2025 — Pamela J. Bjorkman

Pamela J. Bjorkman · California Institute of Technology · funded by Wolf Foundation