Prof. Dr. Meera Mehta from the Universtiy of Oxford receives the Clara Immerwahr Award 2024
Prof. Dr. Meera Mehta from the University of Oxford receives the Clara Immerwahr Award 2024 for her outstanding achievements in catalysis research. Prof. Mehta was born and raised in downtown Toronto (Canada). She completed her Honours BSc from McMaster University and earned her PhD from the University of Toronto under the mentorship of Prof. Douglas Stephan.
News from Apr 19, 2024
In 2018, she was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship to work with Prof. Jose Goicoechea at the University of Oxford.
In 2020, Prof. Mehta was recruited to the University of Manchester to establish her independent research group.
In January 2024, she returned to the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry to continue her research efforts.
Clara Immerwahr Award
The Clara Immerwahr Award, launched by UniCat in 2011, is an award for promoting equity and excellence in catalysis research fostering young female scientists at an early stage of their career. The award is dedicated to Dr. Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915), who was the first woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1900.
The Clara Immerwahr Award is now by UniSysCat conferred annually to a young female scientist from Germany or abroad at an early stage of her career (postdoctoral fellow, junior researcher) for outstanding results in Catalysis Research. It is associated with a financial support of 15.000 Euro* for a research stay at UniSysCat and thought to establish close collaborative links with UniSysCat working groups.