Grants Awarded in 2025

The FBF is pleased to sponsor 25 outstanding projects in 2025-27, with awards totaling $320,397.

Daniel Stolper, UC Berkeley
Laurent TrucheUniversité Grenoble Alpes
Natural hydrogen for a future carbon neutral economy: An Earth science-centered workshop

Moriel Vandsburger, UC Berkeley
Frank KoberCNRS Marseille
Non-invasive Molecular Imaging for Heart Failure Diagnosis

Lining Yao, UC Berkeley
Mark TeyssierDe Vinci Higher Education
BioWeave: Fabricating Interactive Biohybrid Systems Through Living Growth

Natacha Crooks, UC Berkeley
Alain Tchana, Grenoble INP - UGA
Unifying Memory & CPU Management Subsystems

Boubacar Kante, UC Berkeley
Anais DreauUniversite de Montpellier
Quantum light emitters in silicon

Aaron Streets, UC Berkeley
Charles BaroudEcole Polytechnique
A novel microfluidic platform for high-throughput functional screening of human organoids

Trevor Bowen, UC Berkeley
Karine IssautierObservatoire de Paris - Paris Sciences et Lettres
Advancing Space-Borne Diagnostics for Plasma in Magnetized Environments

Jaroslav TrnkaUC Davis
Julio Parra-Martinez, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)
New Theoretical Frontiers in Gravitational Scattering

Volker KochLawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Marlene NahrgangIMT Atlantique, Nantes
Transport of Quarkyonic Matter

Susan KauzlarichUC Davis
Glenna DriskoENS de Lyon

Amorphous Germanium Silicon Alloys for Li-ion Battery Anodes (GEST)

Jeffrey LONG, UC Berkeley
Corine MATHONIEREUniversité de Bordeaux
Light-Controlled Magnetic Properties in Lanthanide-Phthalocyanine Complexes

Stephen Leone, UC Berkeley
Romaine GeneauxCEA Paris-Saclay

Attosecond Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy for symmetry-broken quantum materials

Martin Olsson, UC Berkeley
Matthew MorrowUniversité Paris-Saclay
Motivic cohomology and logarithmic geometry

Sabeeha Merchant, UC Berkeley
Yonghua Li-BeissonAix-Marseille University, CEA Cadarache
Functional analyses of negative regulators of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in the oleaginous green alga, Auxenochlorella protothecoides

Ryan Giordano, UC Berkeley
Christian RobertUniversité Paris-Dauphine
Simulation-Based Inference via Approximate Bayesian Computation

Clara VergèsLawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Josquin ErrardUniversité Paris Cité/CNRS IN2P3
Instrumental systematics for the next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments

Ashok Ajoy, UC Berkeley
Kong Ooi TanÉcole Normale Supérieure
Ultrasensitive Nanoscale Quantum Sensors through sub-THz Electron Spin Control

Benjamin Gilbert, UC Berkeley
Laurent Charlet, Université Grenoble Alpes
PISA: Podoconiosis: Soil Spectromicroscopy and Biological Assays to Quantify Human Exposure to Nanophase Aluminosilicate Minerals in Volcanic Soil

Henry Ravenhall, UC Berkeley
Maud Pérez-SimonUniversité Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Visualizing Gender from Manuscript to Household in the Middle Ages

Hannes Bajohr, UC Berkeley
Antonio SomainiSorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
The Latent Spaces of Culture

Debarati SANYAL, UC Berkeley
Eric Fassin, Paris 8

From Great Replacement to grand remplacement. Transatlantic rhetorics and intersectional politics

Jose Eos Trinidad, UC Berkeley
Christof Brandtner, Emlyon business school

Civic Organizations’ Innovative, Compensatory, or Exclusionary Dynamics in Education

Massimo Mazzotti, UC Berkeley
Andrew Arana, Université de Lorraine

Mathematics and Totalitarianism: a New Perspective

Dennis Levi, UC Berkeley
Bilge Sayim, École normale supérieure (ENS), CNRS

Redundancy masking in amblyopia

Theodore Grantham, UC Berkeley
Joana Guerrin, INRAE

What is a river ? Temporary rivers governance and conservation challenges in France and California