Rate My Professor Stacy Copp

Copp’s research focuses on nanoscale photonic materials assembled from soft matter building blocks such as biomolecules and polymers, biomimetic nanomaterials, and materials informatics approaches to nanoscience. Her lab investigates DNA-directed assembly of metallic clusters and nanostructures, block copolymer-directed assembly of photonic nanomaterials, and high-throughput experimentation combined with machine learning to accelerate nanomaterials discovery. Her achievements have earned major awards including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2024), DOE Early Career Research Program Award (2024), DEVCOM ARL HBCU/MI Early Career Program Award (2024), AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (2020), Hellman Faculty Fellowship (2023), and Scialog Fellowship (2024). Key publications include “Magic numbers in DNA-stabilized fluorescent silver clusters lead to magic colors” (The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014), “DNA-protected silver clusters for nanophotonics” (Nanomaterials, 2015), “Chemistry-informed machine learning enables discovery of DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters with near-infrared fluorescence” (ACS Nano, 2022), and “An atom-precise understanding of DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters” (Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024). Her publications have garnered over 1,650 citations on Google Scholar.