Austin M. Evans
Assistant Professor
Austin M. Evans is an organic materials chemist who is interested in controlling soft-matter at multiple length scales concurrently. Specifically, his research is targeted at designing materials to enhance environmental, energy-storage, and electronic technologies using both covalent and non-covalent approaches. Austin is passionate about chemical education, which led him to create a scientific writing course at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Florida, Austin was a Schmidt Science Fellow at Columbia University where he studied organic electronic materials with Latha Venkataraman and Colin Nuckolls. Austin completed his PhD under the direction of William R. Dichtel as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Northwestern University, where he developed new methods to control two-dimensional polymerization. Austin originally hails from Oklahoma, where he earned his undergraduate degrees at the University of Tulsa. Outside of the lab, Austin enjoys hiking, kayaking, and appreciating the Florida wilderness.
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Email: AustinEvans@ufl.edu
Appointments
- Department of Chemistry (Assistant Professor) | University of Florida
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Affiliate) | University of Florida
- George & Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory
- Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering
- National High Field Magnetic Laboratory (Affiliate Faculty)
- University of Florida Water Institute
Professional Experience and Education
- 2022 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
- 2021 – 2022 Postdoctoral Schmidt Science Fellow, Columbia University
- 2016 – 2020 Ph.D. NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Northwestern University
- 2014 – 2015 DAAD RISE Scholar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
- 2012 – 2016 B.S., summa cum laude, University of Tulsa
Honors and Awards
- 2026 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- 2026 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists
- 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
- 2025 UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
- 2024 Journal of Materials Science A Emerging Investigator
- 2024 Scialog Fellow, Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials
- 2024 Kao Lecturer, University of Tokyo
- 2024 SEC Visiting Faculty Award (LSU)
- 2023 Polymer Science Emerging Investigator Award
- 2023 RSC Nanoscale Emerging Investigator
- 2022 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
- 2022 Foresight Fellow in Molecular Electronics
- 2021 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists
- 2021 ACS Global Outstanding Student in Polymer Science
- 2021 ACS Henkel Award for Graduate Research in Polymer Science
- 2021 Schmidt Science Fellow
- 2020 MOF2020 Early Career Awardee
- 2017 International Institute of Nanotechnology, Ryan Fellowship
- 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2016 Phi Kappa Phi, Marcus L. Urann Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2015 Oklahoma Governor’s Business Roundtable, Paulsen Entrepreneurial Fellow
- 2015 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
- 2014 National Institute of Standards and Techonology Hancock Memorial Award
- 2014 National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Grant Recipient
- 2013 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst RISE Scholar