Dr. Lea Nienhaus
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Rice Advanced Materials Institute Fellow
Education and Positions
2024 – present – Associate Professor, Rice University
2018 – 2024 – Assistant Professor, Florida State University
2015 – 2018 – Postdoc Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015 – Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2010 – B.Sc. Chemistry, Uni Ulm, Germany
Selected Honors and Awards
2025 – ACS ENFL Energy Lectureship Award
2024 – Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
2024 – ACS PHYS Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award
2023 – Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2023 – National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2023 – Grammaticakis-Neumann Award