The DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program provides an annual funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories. Established in 2010, this program supports the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP). You can find more information on the Early Career Research Program page.

July 17, 2023

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Xiaodong Xu: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Xiaodong Xu studies the properties of single atomic layer semiconductors, looking for new materials and new ways to control electrical conductivity.

June 26, 2023

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Junjie Zhu : Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Developing new technologies to measure rare particle interactions is the work of physicist Junjie Zhu at the University of Michigan and CERN.

June 12, 2023

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Kevin Wilson: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Kevin Wilson studies liquid and nanoparticle interfaces to understand surface chemistry reactions and the cycling of molecules in the biosphere.

May 22, 2023

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Paul Romatschke: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Paul Romatschke and his team have made fundamental predictions about physics, such as the fact that matter in the early universe was a fluid.

May 8, 2023

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Rouven Essig: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Theoretical particle physicist Rouven Essig is pioneering new experiments and detection methods in the search for knowledge about dark matter.

April 10, 2023

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Kirstin Alberi: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

At the National Renewable Energy Lab, Kirstin Alberi discovered that light can create desirable properties in crystals grown for semiconductors.

March 6, 2023

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Rachel Mandelbaum: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Rachel Mandelbaum’s work uses data from large sky surveys to study the physics governing the second half of the universe’s age.

February 21, 2023

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Volker Rose: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Volker Rose developed a one-of-a-kind microscope, combining synchrotron X-rays and scanning tunneling microscopy for insights at the atomic scale.

January 30, 2023

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Jamey Young: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

What are “green cell factories”? Vanderbilt professor Jamey Young is re-engineering cyanobacteria’s metabolisms to produce renewable fuel compounds.

January 17, 2023

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Ming Ye: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

Ming Ye develops multi-disciplinary approaches to reduce uncertainty in environmental studies, helping to support science-informed decisions.