The 2019 DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientists Fellows Awards recognized some of the most outstanding researchers supported by DOE.

At SLAC, Yuantao Ding has developed new techniques to capture snapshot images of nature’s fastest phenomena on the smallest scale.

Dark energy is causing the universe to expand ever faster; scientists are working to understand this mysterious phenomenon.
Simple photochemical method takes advantage of quantum mechanics.

Physicist Ivan Bazarov is making advances in beam quality and brightness at Cornell University’s particle accelerator, the Photoinjector.
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.
By hoarding water underground, vegetation will help saturate soil, boosting rain runoff.

University of Texas at Austin professor Christina Markert is investigating the nuclear evolution of the universe.
Drexel researchers have developed a way to coat cellulose yarn with flakes of a type of conductive, two-dimensional material called MXene.
A collaborative study describes how fuel cells can be developed using nanomaterials to be more cost-effective and efficient in the long term.