Dr. Sabah Bux from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA, has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 International Thermoelectric Society Young Investigator Award. The award is partially sponsored with generous support from Gentherm, Inc. Dr. Bux received her PhD in chemistry in 2010 from the University of California – Los Angeles, and has been on the research staff at JPL since that time.  She has made several outstanding contributions to the synthesis, characterization, and understanding of bulk nanostructured materials. Dr. Bux will receive the award at ICT 2015 in Dresden, Germany, where she will also present an invited talk on her work.