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.
December 30, 2020
Daniel Fredrickson: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Daniel Frederickson studies metallics to develop strategies for creating materials able to merge different functional domains at the nanometer scale.
December 18, 2020
Jeffrey Newman: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Jeffrey Newman is improving methods for determining the distances to the stars, for ongoing and future dark energy experiments.
December 11, 2020
Nate McDowell: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Nate McDowell studies tree life and death during droughts, showing how vegetation death plays a major role in the global carbon cycle.
November 21, 2020
Christopher Mauger: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
U of Pennsylvania physics professor Christopher Mauger measures neutrino properties, investigating the transformation of neutrinos between types.
November 6, 2020
Christian Bauer: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Large data sets require software specifically written to increase precision. Christian Bauer develops that software for new physics discoveries.
October 23, 2020
Matt Law: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Producing lead selenide quantum dot films by atomic layer deposition is paving the way to new applications in nanoscale materials.
October 2, 2020
Patrick Huber: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Virginia Tech’s Patrick Huber is modeling reactor neutrino fluxes, improving our understanding of neutrino properties and their role in the cosmos.
September 11, 2020
Kalyan R. Perumalla: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Perumalla’s work on reversible computing is overcoming challenges in exascale computing.
August 21, 2020
Martin Centurion: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Martin Centurion is capturing images of molecules in real time, on a timescale of less than a trillionth of a second.
August 14, 2020
Victoria Orphan: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Studying microorganisms from extreme environments is leading to new, multi-disciplinary approaches towards understanding microbial symbiosis.