CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has selected 35 PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars from around the globe to participate in the 2025 CAS Future Leaders program. These early-career scientists will gather at CAS headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 11–16 to work on science leadership skills, engage in scientific discourse, and connect with industry leaders and peer scientists.
These leaders will also receive an expense-paid trip to the ACS Fall 2025 meeting in Washington, DC, where they will present research and attend an ACS Professional and Leadership Development course.
The 2025 CAS Future Leaders are Farbod Amirghasemi, University of Southern California; Carla Arnau del Valle, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV); Ridwan T. Ayinla, Mississippi State University; Kazuho Ban, Osaka University; Shivali Banerjee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Alexandra Barth, North Carolina State University; Hudson de Aguiar Bicalho, Concordia University; Dorothea Böken, University of Cambridge; Karen de la Vega Hernández, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ); Fábio Godoy Delolo, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Jingshan S. Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Dmitry Eremin, California Institute of Technology; Alexis Gabbey, University of Toronto; Wenhao Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reginaldo J. Gomes, University of Chicago; Jesse Gordon, Harvard University; Sophie Gutenthaler-Tietze, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; Nia Harmon, Yale University; Sejun Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Tamra (Blue) Mbeuh Lahom Lot, Pennsylvania State University; Yuanwei Li, Stanford University; Zhi Lin, University of California, San Francisco; Raul A. Marquez-Montes, University of Texas at Austin; Eva J. Meeus, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Daniel Reddy, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; Meg Shieh, Brown University; Great C. Umenweke, University of Kentucky; M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Northwestern University; Vyshnavi Vennelakanti, Princeton University; M. Shaharyar Wani, Princeton University; Allison Wong, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Zuping Xiong, Zhejiang University; Francisco Yarur Villanueva, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT); Max Yavitt, University of Otago; and Yan Zhang, California Institute of Technology.
Beyond the 2025 Future Leaders, CAS recognizes additional outstanding applicants through the CAS Future Leaders Top 100 program. Those in the Top 100 program receive virtual leadership training, a lifetime membership to the CAS Future Leaders Community, and a 1-year ACS membership. To learn more about the Future Leaders program, read insights from CAS Future Leaders, and view profiles of previous Future Leaders, visit https://www.cas.org/about/futureleaders.