DOE Awards $110M for Groundbreaking Research by 83 Early Career Scientists

The DOE has announced the selection of 83 early career scientists from across the country to receive $110 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics, from holography to particle accelerators. This year’s awardees represent 47 universities and 13 National Labs in 29 states. These awards are a part of the DOE’s long-standing efforts to develop the next generation of STEM leaders who will solidify America’s role as the driver of science and innovation around the world. Recipients from DOE EPSCoR jurisdictions include:

• ALABAMA: Lauren Beckingham, Auburn University, Mechanisms of hydrogen interaction with earth materials in subsurface storage formations
  
  
• IDAHO: Boopathy Kombaiah, Idaho National Laboratory, Fundamental Mechanisms of Newtonian Diffusional Creep in Structural Alloys
  
  
• LOUISIANA: Jorge Villa, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Assessing greenhouse gas structural and functional resilience of freshwater coastal wetlands subject to persistent saltwater intrusion events
  
  
• NEVADA: Aditya Nair, University of Nevada, Network-based modeling and simulation of coupled multi-physics systems
  
  
• NEW MEXICO:
  • Peter Bosler, Sandia National Laboratories, High performance adaptive multiscale simulation with data-driven scale selective subgrid parameterizations
  • Andrew Mounce, Sandia National Laboratories, Topological Phases Unraveled by Spin Noise Magnetometry with a Single Spin Qubit
  • Krupa Ramasesha, Sandia National Laboratories, Unraveling the Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics Governing NonEquilibrium Molecule-Nanoparticle Interactions
    
• OKLAHOMA: Sabit Ekin, Oklahoma State University, CommAwareNet: Towards Communication-Aware Smart Facilities: Designing an Energy-efficient High-data-rate and Reliable Hybrid THz/VLC Comm. Arch. Reinforced with Intelligent Surfaces for Future Network
  
  
• RHODE ISLAND: Dugan Hayes, University of Rhode Island, Reusable molecular platforms for on-demand photochemical dihydrogen production
  
  
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Yao Wang, Clemson University, Analog Quantum Simulation for Solid-State Spectroscopies
  
  
• SOUTH DAKOTA: Bess Vlaisavljevich, University of South Dakota, CASPT2 Geometries, Spectra, and Relativistic Electronic Structures of Actinide Species