Latest News From Our Lab
UK Interdisciplinary Team Granted NSF Award to Build Insights into Mixed Electronic-Ionic Transport, STEM Outreach in Kentucky
Kenneth Graham, Alexandra Paterson and Chad Risko received NSF support to study mixed ionic-electronic transport and develop hands-on STEM outreach for Kentucky educators and students.
UK Engineering receives record number of NSF CAREER awards
Paterson was among a record six Pigman College faculty members receiving 2025 NSF CAREER Awards, supporting research on organic electrochemical transistor interfaces and STEM outreach.
8 faculty and 8 graduate students named Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholars
Alexandra F. Paterson was named a Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar, receiving support for equipment used in organic electrochemical transistor stability testing.
Paterson paper advances organic electronics field
A Paterson lab paper in Nature Materials identified how a widely used performance metric can be overestimated in organic electrochemical transistors, improving how the field evaluates devices.
Lexington 16-year-old student wins $75,000 for what could be a medical breakthrough
Grace Sun won the top $75,000 prize at the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for bioelectronics research conducted with Paterson’s Organic Materials and Devices Laboratory.
2026 Pigman College of Engineering Faculty Awards
The Pigman College of Engineering honored its 2026 Faculty Awards recipients, recognizing Alexandra F. Paterson with an Excellence in Research Award for field-shaping work in organic electronics.
Paterson earns 2 prestigious national awards for research, innovation
Alexandra F. Paterson earned an NSF CAREER Award and a DARPA Young Faculty Award to advance organic electronics for next-generation medical technology and innovative ocean sensors.
Paterson Wins Prestigious Beilby Medal & Prize and Early Investigator Award
Alexandra F. Paterson received the 2025 Beilby Medal & Prize and a 2025 PMSE Early Investigator Award for her contributions to applied materials science, materials engineering and polymer research.