The FBF is pleased to sponsor 25 outstanding projects in 2025-27, with awards totaling $320,397.
Daniel Stolper, UC Berkeley
Laurent Truche, Université Grenoble Alpes
Natural hydrogen for a future carbon neutral economy: An Earth science-centered workshop
Moriel Vandsburger, UC Berkeley
Frank Kober, CNRS Marseille
Non-invasive Molecular Imaging for Heart Failure Diagnosis
Lining Yao, UC Berkeley
Mark Teyssier, De 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 Dreau, Universite de Montpellier
Quantum light emitters in silicon
Aaron Streets, UC Berkeley
Charles Baroud, Ecole Polytechnique
A novel microfluidic platform for high-throughput functional screening of human organoids
Trevor Bowen, UC Berkeley
Karine Issautier, Observatoire de Paris - Paris Sciences et Lettres
Advancing Space-Borne Diagnostics for Plasma in Magnetized Environments
Jaroslav Trnka, UC Davis
Julio Parra-Martinez, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)
New Theoretical Frontiers in Gravitational Scattering
Volker Koch, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Marlene Nahrgang, IMT Atlantique, Nantes
Transport of Quarkyonic Matter
Susan Kauzlarich, UC Davis
Glenna Drisko, ENS de Lyon
Amorphous Germanium Silicon Alloys for Li-ion Battery Anodes (GEST)
Jeffrey LONG, UC Berkeley
Corine MATHONIERE, Université de Bordeaux
Light-Controlled Magnetic Properties in Lanthanide-Phthalocyanine Complexes
Stephen Leone, UC Berkeley
Romaine Geneaux, CEA Paris-Saclay
Attosecond Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy for symmetry-broken quantum materials
Martin Olsson, UC Berkeley
Matthew Morrow, Université Paris-Saclay
Motivic cohomology and logarithmic geometry
Sabeeha Merchant, UC Berkeley
Yonghua Li-Beisson, Aix-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 Robert, Université Paris-Dauphine
Simulation-Based Inference via Approximate Bayesian Computation
Clara Vergès, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory
Josquin Errard, Université Paris Cité/CNRS IN2P3
Instrumental systematics for the next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments
Ashok Ajoy, UC Berkeley
Kong Ooi Tan, École 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-Simon, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Visualizing Gender from Manuscript to Household in the Middle Ages
Hannes Bajohr, UC Berkeley
Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne 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