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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.