Professional Awards and Honors
- 2023 Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2022 Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation
- 2022 Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Fellow
- 2022 Soft Matter Emerging Investigator
- 2021 Early Career Scholar, Springer, Journal of Materials Research
- 2020 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Symposium
- 2019 NSF Solid State Materials Chemistry Workshop Organizer
- 2018 NSF Early CAREER Award
- 2018 Elected Council Member of International Mesostructured Materials Association
- 2018 Breakthrough Star Award, USC
- 2017 Emerging Investigator, RSC, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- 2014 Cottrell New Faculty Workshop
Grants
- coPI: SC Department of Commerce “Fraunhofer: High Fidelity Digital Twins for Large Scale Energy Storage Batteries” $636,474 as coPI 1/15/2024-12/31/2024
- PI: DOE-BES “Understanding the Role of Defects to Accelerate Wadsley-Roth Niobates for Long-Duration Energy Storage” DE-SC0023377 $2,550,000 9/1/2022-8/31/2025
- coPI: Prisma Health “Reducing Intravascular Stent Thrombogenicity by Hyaluronic Acid Coating” $25,000 6/01/2021-5/31/2024
- PI: SC-EPSCoR “Fluorophobic Response of Nanoparticle-Polymer Assemblies to Solvent Vapors” 20-GE02 1/1/2020-12/31/2020 $60,000
- PI: ACS-PRF “Fluorophobic Interactions for Multimodal Nanoparticle-Polymer Assemblies” PRF# 60855-ND7” 2020-2023 $110,000
- PI: NSF-DMR-SSMC “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Hybrids and Interfaces” DMR-1940540 2019-2020 $49,999
- PI: NSF-DMR-SSMC CAREER, “Tunable Isomorphic Architectures” DMR-1752615, 2018.03.01-2023.02.28 $533,370 +$106,673 Research Supplement +$53,849 AGEP Supplement +53,496 AGEP Supplement
- coPI: NSF-EPRI, “NSF-EPRI Innovative and Ultra-Efficient Evaporators to Realize Cost-effective Desalination” NSF-EPRI 10007094 4/21/17-12/31/2019 $109,923
- NSF-DMR MRI, “MRI: Acquisition of a Small-angle X-ray Scattering Instrument”, DMR-1428620, 8/20/14-7/31/17 $834,614(TPC)
Employment/Education
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Full Professor, Jan 2024-present
Associate Professor, August 2019 – 2023
Assistant Professor, August 2013-2019
Director of South Carolina SAXS Collaborative, August 2014 – Present
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland
Post Doctoral Researcher, January 2011 – July 2013
Advised by Professor Michael Grätzel
Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, minor in Chemistry, July 2010
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, January 2009
Advised by Professor Ulrich Wiesner and Professor Francis J. DiSalvo
California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA
B.E. in Materials Engineering, graduated Summa Cum Laude, June 2005
Engineering Honor Societies Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Sigma Mu
Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
Research Fellowship, Summer 2004
Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA)
Educational Honors and Awards
- 2012 EPFL Prestations d’une Valeur Exceptionnelle
- 2006, 2007 Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems Fellowship
- 2005 Materials Information Society (ASM, Santa Clara Valley Chapter) and The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Northern California Chapter) ASM-SAMPE Scholarship
- 2004 Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA) NSF Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Fellowship
- 2004 Adele and Aldo Alessio Scholarship
- 2001 Golden State ScholarShare Trust
Contact
Dr. Morgan Stefik
University of South Carolina
Horizon 1 Bldg., Room 241
541 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29208
ph: (803) 777-6308
fax: (803) 777-8100
stefik@mailbox.sc.edu