Announcing the 2023 laureates of the Transatlantic Research Partnership grant.
The Transatlantic Research Partnership Selection Committee selected fifteen teams to receive a $20,000 grant to pursue a research project over two years. Each team is led by two researchers at the beginning of their career, one based in France and one based in the United States, and also includes post-doctoral fellows, PhD and Master’s students.
Projects were selected for their scientific quality, their involvement of young researchers, and their relevance to the theme of the call for applications: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The Transatlantic Research Partnership is proud to support the following projects:
Confronting Ethno-racial Discrimination in Agricultural Work: A French-American Research Collaboration
Discipline: Geography
Partner Institutions: The New School / INRAE
Laureates: Kristin Reynolds / Coline Perrin
Informing Wildlife Conservation with a More-than-Human Geography Perspective
Discipline: Geography
Partner Institutions: Boston University / CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Laureates: Anne Short Gianotti / Meredith Root-Bernstein
A framework for improving health literacy (meCare): meeting interests and a level of understanding of individuals in health information
Disciplines: Computer Science / Information – Linguistics
Partner Institutions: Towson University / Université de Lille
Laureates: Jinie Pak / Amel Fraisse
On the Environmental Anthropogenic Metabolism of Urban Settlement
Disciplines: Environmental Sciences – Design
Partner Institutions: Harvard University / Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
Laureates: Yun Fu / Claire Doussard
Fair Housing Policies in Global Cities
Disciplines: Environmental Sciences – Political Science
Partner Institutions: University of California at Los Angeles / Université Paris Cité
Laureates: Paavo Monkkonen / Magda Maaoui
Artificial Intelligence Guided Materials Design for Clean Energy
Discipline: Engineering
Partner Institutions: University at Buffalo / Université de Bourgogne
Laureates: Fei Yao / Stéphanie Bricq
Managing human microbial communities for reducing reproductive impacts of endocrine disruptors
Discipline: Health
Partner Institutions: University of Arizona / INRAE
Laureates: Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz / Zehra Esra Ilhan
Linking soil properties, geomorphology, and aquatic chemistry in rapidly changing permafrost environments
Discipline: Environmental Science
Partner Institutions: University of Minnesota / Université Paris Saclay
Laureates: Nicolas Jelinski / Antoine Séjourné
Quantifying the present and future stability of the Arctic halocline: synthesizing modeling and observations
Discipline: Environmental Science
Partner Institutions: University of Washington / Ifremer
Laureates: John Guthrie / Camille Lique
Enabling Mechanical Recycling of Rubbers through Polymer Mechanochemistry
Discipline: Chemistry
Partner Institutions: University of Texas at Austin / University de Lyon
Laureates: Gabriel Sanoja / Damien Montarnal
POET-Particles as niches for nOn-cyanobactErial diazoTrophs
Discipline: Environmental Science
Partner Institutions: University of Santa Cruz / Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Laureates: Kendra Turk-Kubo / Mar Benavides
Genomic variability and evolution of the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG1 associated with multiple hosts of agronomic and economic importance around the world
Discipline : Biology
Partner Institutions: University of Arkansas / Plant Health Institute Montpellier
Laureates: Alejandro Rojas / Pierre Gladieux
Automated discovery of solar-powered chemical reactions
Discipline: Chemistry
Partner Institution: Northeastern University / Aix-Marseille Université
Laureates: Steven Lopez / Max Pinheiro Junior
Biophysical modeling to inform Brain-Computer Interface learning mechanisms
Discipline: Engineering
Partner Institutions: University of California San Diego / Inria, Institut du Cerveau
Laureates: Parul Verma / Marie-Constance Corsi
Modeling plastic pollution beaching
Discipline: Environmental Science
Partner Institutions: University of Wisconsin-Madison / CNRS
Laureates: Nimish Pujara / Gautier Verhille
Learn more about eligibility criteria and past selected projects here.
The Transatlantic Research Partnership is made possible by the generous support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, the PACCAR Foundation, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.