Seitz Receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Linsey Seitz will use the unrestricted $100,000 grant to advance her sustainable electrocatalytic research
Northwestern Engineering’s Linsey Seitz has been selected as one of the 19 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025.
Chosen by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
With the grant, Seitz will pursue the project “Harnessing Dynamic Materials and Systems for Sustainable Electrocatalytic Technologies.”
“Support from the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award will enable us to pursue complementary research and education programs in electrochemistry to drive development of emerging technologies and expand the future workforce in electrochemistry to promote sustainability, efficiency, and a cleaner living environment for all,” said Seitz, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering.
Seitz’s research group aims to transform our global chemicals and fuels industries to achieve deep decarbonization by advancing electrocatalytic technologies that use increasingly accessible and inexpensive renewable electricity. Her work is motivated by a desire to understand complex phenomena that are influenced by the application of electric potentials and to apply these insights to designing catalyst materials and reactors.
Work from the Seitz lab brings critical insights to both model systems and applied technologies to drive better performance in emerging sustainable technology solutions for applications in green hydrogen production and organic electrosynthesis.
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award is the latest for Seitz. She was named a Sloan Research Fellow in February, and she also received the ACS Catalysis and Technology Division Early Career Award in 2024.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation works to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances throughout the world.