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.
Yuan Ping developed measurement methods that helped scientists properly control fusion energy losses at the National Ignition Facility.
Lijuan Ruan studies the strong force interactions that occur in the quark-gluon plasma created at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Sigrid Elschot studies the effects of fast-moving meteoroids and small space debris that vaporize, ionize themselves, and produce plasma upon impact.
In her work studying metals manufacturing at the Colorado School of Mines, Amy J. Clarke learns how to avoid defects and improve solidification.
Silviu Covrig Dusa developed technologies to make precision measurements at subatomic scales possible in the search to answer fundamental questions.
A new approach to materials by Joshua Zide and his team turns semiconductors into nanocomposites with different properties and new applications.
Xiaodong Xu studies the properties of single atomic layer semiconductors, looking for new materials and new ways to control electrical conductivity.
Developing new technologies to measure rare particle interactions is the work of physicist Junjie Zhu at the University of Michigan and CERN.
Kevin Wilson studies liquid and nanoparticle interfaces to understand surface chemistry reactions and the cycling of molecules in the biosphere.
Paul Romatschke and his team have made fundamental predictions about physics, such as the fact that matter in the early universe was a fluid.