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Edward Hohenstein, Emma McBride and Caterina Vernieri study what happens to molecules hit by light, recreate extreme states of matter like those inside stars and planets, and search for new physics phenomena at the most fundamental level.
Edward Hohenstein, Emma McBride and Caterina Vernieri from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will receive prestigious Early Career Research Program awards for studies of light-induced chemical reactions and how to control them, matter in extreme conditions and the physics of fundamental particles and forces.
Three SLAC scientists will receive prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program awards (from left): Edward Hohenstein, Emma McBride and Caterina Vernieri. (Photos courtesy of Edward Hohenstein; Sanha Cheong and Zhi Zheng; Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dan Melconian: Then and now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Physics professor Dan Melconian developed TAMUTRAP system, a unique tool for detecting positrons and protons from nuclear beta decay
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WHAT DID THE 2011 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO?
The Standard Model of particle physics describes the known fundamental particles and their interactions, but it is known to be incomplete. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has confirmed a Higgs-like particle, but what else is beyond the Standard Model that we haven t seen.yet? In addition to other searches in a variety of fields, precision measurements in nuclear beta decay offer a way to test the Standard Model and search for new physics.
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A foundational study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows for the first time that white-rot fungi are able to use carbon captured from lignin as a carbon source.
The research confirms a hypothesis from Davinia Salvachúa Rodriguez, the senior author of a newly published paper. Until now, scientists were unsure whether white-rot fungi the most efficient lignin-degrading organisms in nature actually consume the products generated from breaking down lignin. What we have demonstrated here is that white-rot fungi can actually utilize lignin-derived aromatic compounds as a carbon source, which means they can eat them and utilize them to grow, Salvachúa said. That is another strategy for carbon sequestration in nature and has not been reported before.
Suzanne E. Lapi: Then and now / 2011 Early Career Award winner
Suzanne Lapi heads a research group focused on the radiochemistry and development of production techniques of isotopes for medical imaging and therapy
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2011 Early Career Award Winner Suzanne Lapi
WHAT DID THE 2011 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO?
The Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award (ECA) jump-started my career as an independent faculty member at the Washington University in St. Louis and the path to my current position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The ECA project “Production of
99mTc using a medical cyclotron” enabled me to get started with solid targets for the accelerator production of radioisotopes. It also helped me expand my group with the addition of a new postdoctoral fellow and gain visibility in the radioisotope community via our presentations and publications. The data and knowledge gained through this project paved the way for a