PI About Diwakar
Diwakar Shukla is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative biology, Department of Plant Biology, Bioengineering and Chemistry. His research work is focused on understanding the complex molecular processes in chemical and biomolecular systems using computational and experimental techniques. He started his research career at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, where he received B. Tech and M. Tech. degrees in chemical engineering. He then joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering. Before joining Illinois, he was postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Vijay S. Pande, Department of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Diwakar has received early-career faculty awards from the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. At Illinois, Shukla has been recognized for his research and teaching: he has been awarded the Dean’s Award for excellence in research (2020, 2024); Stanley H. Pierce Award for excellence in mentoring (2024); Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award (2016, 2024) and the Teaching Excellence Award from the School of Chemical Sciences (2019).
Appointments Education
Selected Awards
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2024 Stanely H. Pierce Award for Excellence in Mentoring
College of Engineering, University of Illinois
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2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
College of Engineering, University of Illinois
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2024 Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award
College of Engineering, University of Illinois
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2022 Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Chemistry
American Chemical Society
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2022 Pivot Fellowship
Simons Foundation
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2022 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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2021 List of Influential Researchers in Bioengineering
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society
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2021 Maximizing Investigator Research Award
National Institutes of Health
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2021 Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Award
American Chemical Society
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2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2019 SCS Excellence in Teaching Award
School of Chemical Sciences,
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2019 Faculty Fellow
National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
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2019 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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2018 NSF Early CAREER Award
National Science Foundation
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2018 CoMSEF Young Investigator Award
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2018 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry
American Chemical Society
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2017 New Innovator Award in Food & Agriculture Research
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research