National Institutes of Health FIRST Award, 1988–93 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 1989–94 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1990–92 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990–95 Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2001 Engineering and Applied Sciences Cozzarelli Prize, Proceeding of the National Academies, National Academies, 2007 2010 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow 2010-2015 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship 2012 Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 Distinguished Lecturer, Mathematical Physical Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation

Theory & Computation/Energy Science

Theory & Computation; Energy Science

Longo, Gabriel S.; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica; Szleifer, Igal, “PH-controlled nanoaggregation in amphiphilic polymer co-networks”, ACS Nano, (2013) Jadhao, Vikram; Solis, Francisco J.; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica, “A variational formulation of electrostatics in a medium with spatially varying dielectric permittivity”, Journal of Chemical Physics, (2013) Guerrero-Garc?ia, Guillermo I.; Olvera De La Cruz, M?onica, “Inversion of the electric field at the electrified liquid-liquid interface”, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, (2013) Qiao, Bao Fu; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica, “Driving force for crystallization of anionic lipid membranes revealed by atomistic simulations”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, (2013) Patala, Srikanth; Marks, Laurence D.; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica, “Elastic strain energy effects in faceted decahedral nanoparticles”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, (2013) Kohlstedt, Kevin L.; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica; Schatz, George C., “Controlling orientational order in 1-D assemblies of multivalent triangular prisms”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, (2013) Jackson, Nicholas E.; Savoie, Brett M.; Kohlstedt, Kevin L.; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica; Schatz, George C.; Chen, Lin X.; Ratner, Mark A., “Controlling conformations of conjugated polymers and small molecules: The role of nonbonding interactions”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2013) Li, Ting I. N. G.; Sknepnek, Rastko; Olvera De La Cruz, Monica, “Thermally active hybridization drives the crystallization of DNA-functionalized nanoparticles”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2013)