Funding

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS

  • Title: High Energy Safe Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
    Agency: Department of Energy (Phase II SBIR/STTR DE-SC0018795)
    Dollar amount: $1,050,000 total, $189,292 subaward to UWM
    Grant Period: 8/2019-8/2021
    PIs: Carol Hirschmugl (PI-SafeLi), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI-UWM)
  • Title: SBIR Phase I: SafeLi: Graphene Monoxide Anodes for Extreme Batteries
    Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF IIP-1843306)
    Dollar amount: $225,000 total, $57,338 subaward to UWM
    Grant Period: 2/2019-8/2019
    PIs: Carol Hirschmugl (PI-SafeLi), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI-UWM)
  • Title: High Energy Safe Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
    Agency: Department of Energy (Phase I SBIR/STTR DE-SC0018795)
    Dollar amount: $154,824, $56,997 subaward to UWM
    Grant Period: 7/2018-4/2019
    PIs: Carol Hirschmugl (PI-SafeLi), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI-UWM)
  • Title: UWM McNair Program
    Agency: US Department of Education (S217A170163)
    Dollar amount: $1,342,000
    Grant Period: 10/2017-9/2022
    PIs: Ramona Tenorio (PI), James Peoples (interim PI), Khrys FuQua’ (PI), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (Sponsor)
  • Title: ICORPS Teams: Customer Discovery for Advanced Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
    Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF-IIP-1742997)
    Dollar amount: $50,000 to SafeLi as subaward to UWM
    Grant Period: 07/2017-06/2018
    PIs: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI), Carol Hirschmugl (EL), Marvin Schofield (co-EL), Loren Peterson (Business Mentor)
  • Title: Spider silk: A Structural Study of Fibers for Biomimetic Applications
    Agency: American Physical Society, M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship
    Dollar amount: $45,000
    Grant Period: 09/2012-08/2013
    PIs: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI and mentor), Sujatha Sampath (Fellow)
  • Title: Collaborative Research: Engineering Miniaturized Gas Sensors with Hybrid Nanomaterials
    Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF-0856753)
    Dollar amount: $300,000
    Grant Period: 07/2009-06/2012
    PIs: Junhong H. Chen (PI), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Carol Hirschmugl
  • Title: Atomic and Electronic Structure of Polar Oxide Interfaces
    Agency: Department of Energy (DE-FG02-06ER46328)
    Dollar amount: $450,000
    Grant Period: 08/15/2006-08/14/2009 (extended to 8/14/2010)
    PIs: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI), Michael Weinert, Scott A. Chambers
  • Title: MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope for an Interdisciplinary, Multi-User Facility Serving Life, Physical, and Materials Sciences
    Agency: National Science Foundation (CHE-0723002)
    Dollar amount: $603,617
    Grant Period: 09/01/2007-08/31/2010
    PIs: Peter Geissinger (PI), Heather A. Owen, Jorg C. Woehl, Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Nikolai A. Kouklin.
  • Title: Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Stabilization Mechanisms for Polar Oxide Interfaces
    Agency: Research Corporation (RA0331)
    Program: Research Opportunity Award
    Dollar amount: RC: $49,637, total: $76,454
    Grant Period: 01/01/2004-12/31/2005
    PI: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska
  • Title: Polar Oxide Surfaces
    Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF/DMR-9553148)
    Program: Presidential Faculty Fellows Award
    Dollar amount: NSF: $500,000 + $5000 REU Supplement
    Grant Period: 11/01/1995-10/31/2002
    PI: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska
  • Title: Nanoindentation and Electron Microscopy Studies of Transformation-Toughening Zirconia-Based Nanolaminate Films
    Agency: Department of Energy (ORISE)
    Program: SHaRE
    Dollar amount: $ 4,720
    PIs: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI) and Carolyn R. Aita
  • Title: Acquisition of X-ray Microanalysis System and Related Specimen Preparation Instrumentation for Electron Microscopy
    Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF/BIR-9413762)
    Program: Academic Research Infrastructure Program
    Dollar amount: NSF: $186,973; total: $373,946
    Grant Period: 1994-1997
    PI: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI), M. L. Collins

INTRAMURAL GRANTS

  • Title: Graphene Monoxide (GMO)/Graphene Nanocrystalline Films for Lithium-Ion Batteries
    Agency: UW-Milwaukee Research Foundation
    Program: Catalyst Grant Program
    Dollar Amount: $75,000
    Grant Period: 07/01/2011-06/30/2012
    PIs: Carol Hirschmugl (PI), Junhong Chen, Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska and Michael Weinert
  • Title: Advanced Electron Microscopy and Holography of Multiscale Multiferroic Materials
    Agency: UW-Milwaukee
    Program: Research Growth Initiative
    Dollar Amount: $190,000
    Grant Period: 07/01/2011-06/30/2012 (submitted before joining Graduate School)
    PIs: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (PI), Prasenjit Guptasarma, Marvin Schofield and Yimei Zhu
  • Title: Thermally Derived Graphene Based Nanocrystalline Sheets for Lithium Ion Batteries
    Agency: UW-Milwaukee
    Program: Research Growth Initiative
    Dollar Amount: $185,000
    Grant Period: 07/01/2011-06/30/2012 (submitted before joining Graduate School)
    PIs: Carol Hirschmugl (PI), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska and Junhong Chen
  • Title: Synthesis and Atomic Characterization of Iron Oxide-Gold Core-Shell Nanoparticles, and Their Use in Cell-Targeted Therapies
    Agency: UW-Madison/UW-Milwaukee
    Program: Intercampus Research Incentive Grants Program
    Dollar Amount: $50,000
    Grant Period: 07/01/2010-06/30/2011
    PIs: Julie Oliver (PI), Ralph Albrecht, Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska and Paul Voyles
  • Title: Systematic Improvement of Introductory Physics Laboratories
    Agency: College of Letters and Science, UW-Milwaukee
    Program: Lab Modernization Fund
    Dollar Amount: $152,651
    Grant Period: 09/01/2002-05/30/2004
    PIs: Paul Lyman (Lab 108), Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (Lab 121), Carol Hirschmugl (Lab 123), Lian Li (Lab 214), and Bimal Sarma (Lab 215).
  • Title: Electron Microscopy of Ceramic Surfaces and Interfaces
    Agency: Graduate School, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
    Program: Research Committee Awards Program
    Dollar amount: $ 8,660
    PI: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska
  • Title: Laboratory for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy
    Agency: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Program: Faculty Start Up
    Dollar amount: $530,000
    Grant Period: 1993-1996
    PI: Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska