Funded Researchers
Heather J. Kulik
- Lammot du Pont Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Chemistry
Heather Kulik is the Lammot du Pont Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at MIT. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union in 2004 and a PhD from MIT in 2009, followed by postdoctoral training at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University. Since joining the MIT faculty in 2013, she has received numerous honors, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Since 2025, she has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Photo Credit: Gretchen Ertl
J-WAFS-funded projects
Publications
- MOFs with the Stability for Practical Gas Adsorption Applications Require New Design Rules
- Metal–Organic Framework Stability in Water and Harsh Environments from Data-Driven Models Trained on the Diverse WS24 Data Set
- Robust Chemiresistive Behavior in Conductive Polymer/MOF Composites
- Unraveling Polymer–Ion Interactions in Electrochromic Polymers for their Implementation in Organic Electrochemical Synaptic Devices