CAS announces 2026 Future Leaders

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has selected 31 PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars to participate in the 2026 CAS Future Leaders program. These early-career scientists from around the globe will gather at CAS headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, from Aug. 17 to 22 to learn from industry experts, engage in scientific discourse, and connect with peer scientists and industry leaders.Future Leaders will also receive an expense-paid trip to the ACS Fall 2026 meeting in Chicago to present their research and to take professional and leadership development courses. The 2026 CAS Future Leaders are Jeanette A. Adjei, University of California, Merced; Ashton Aleman, Stanford University; Jusung An, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Juliana Rodriguez Antonio, Southern Methodist University; Lucas Attia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alicia Battaglia, University of Toronto; Isabela Alves de Albuquerque Bessa, Fluminense Federal University; Shinhyeong Choe, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Marcel Roy Domalanta, North Dakota State University; Blaine Fiss, Dalhousie University; Adrián de la Fuente Ballesteros, Leuphana University; Anthony Griffin, University of Southern Mississippi; Ainoa Guinart Planellas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Tarisha Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar; Anjali Gurajapu, California Institute of Technology; Hannah Holmes, Stanford University; Scarlet Hopkins, Griffith University; Maggie Horst, University of California, San Francisco; Nishu Kanwa, Radboud University; Daniel Krajovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kaitlin Landy, University of Chicago; Valeria Belén López Cervantes, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Kenneth López Pérez, University of Florida; Guanyu Lu, Northwestern University; Andrés Merino-Restrepo, University of Alberta; Racchana Ramamurthy, McGill