Early Career Investigator Award

The ACS Analytical Chemistry Early Career Investigator Award was inaugurated in 2025 as an expansion to the original Organic Chemistry ECI award. This award recognizes early career scientists who are no more than 10 years from their graduate or postdoc studies and who have had significant scientific accomplishments in non-academic settings. Awardees will give presentations at the ACS Fall National Meeting that contains a substantial amount of the scientist’s own work.

Nominations

We encourage nominators to select candidates who are both excellent scientists and good communicators. We seek a diverse set of nominations from biotech, pharma, industrial, or government institutions with research work in analytical chemistry. To nominate a candidate for the Early Career Investigator Award you would need to complete the online nomination form. Nominators and nominees must be members or affiliates of the primary division the nomination is submitted to. The form requires a letter describing the nominee’s contributions and the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Additional letters and supporting documents are most welcome, but not essential.

Submission process

Nominations are to be submitted as a single PDF file (named using the format of the Nominee’s information: Last_Name_First_Name_ECI.pdf i.e. Smith_Jane_MCI.pdf) through the online form.

Your PDF file should have the following parts in the following order:

1. Nomination Letter on Company Letterhead
2. Nominee’s CV
3. Supplementary Information (optional)

Questions may be directed to Dr. Mirlinda Biba.

List of past award winners: