Prof. Milan Delor – 2026 Coblentz Award Recipient
Congratulations to our Columbia Chemistry Professor Milan Delor for receiving the 2026 Coblentz Award! Before becoming an Associate Professor at Columbia, he obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield with Prof. Julia Weinstein, where he focused on quantum control of molecular photophysics using multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy. In his postdoc at UC Berkeley with Prof. Naomi Ginsberg, he developed new imaging technologies to track energy flow in materials.
He started his independent career at Columbia in 2019. His group focuses on light-matter interactions, with a special interest in identifying and controlling new electronic transport regimes and quantum phases in material and molecular systems.
He is a recipient of the Beckman Young Investigator award, the NSF CAREER award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award.
About the Coblentz Award:
The Coblentz Award is presented annually to an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40. This award is the Society’s original award (first awarded in 1964), and is the complement of the ‘Craver Award‘ that recognizes young spectroscopists for efforts in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy.
The award is presented annually at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (ISMS).
For more information, see the Coblentz national award page here.
