Dr. Priyanka Sharma 

 Education/Training
    Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York (SUNY Stony Brook), USA (2015-18 ) 
    Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering Department, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, India (2014)

Professional Experience
    Assistant professor, Department of Chemical and Paper Engineering, Western Michigan University, Michigan ( Jan. 2023– ) 
    Deputy Head of Research and Development, Island Group Enterprises , New York  (Sept. 2022–Dec. 2022)
    Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York (SUNY Stony Brook), (Sept. 2018–2022)
    Research Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York (Dec. 2020–2022) .
    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University (Aug. 2019–)

Honors and Awards

• 2021 Women In Science Incentive Prize, USA (Finalist)

• 2021 Breakthrough Energy Innovators Fellowship, USA (Finalist)

• 2020 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water- The Creativity Prize (with Prof. Benjamin Hsiao)

• 2020 Young Academic Inventor’s Award, National Academy of Inventors, USA

• 2018 INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Science and Technology, India

• 2018 Blavatnik Regional Young Scientist Award, The New York Academy of Sciences, USA

• 2014 International Travel Award, SERB, Department of Science & Technology, India