interview with a CFN staff member
January 19, 2021
Essala Lowe outside Brookhaven Lab s Center for Functional Nanomaterials, where she is the assistant director of operations.
In May 2020, Essala Lowe joined the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory as the assistant director of operations. In this leadership role, Lowe is responsible for overseeing day-to-day administrative and operational functions, ensuring the efficient, effective, and safe operations essential to CFN success. Lowe, a trained microbiologist, brings nearly two decades of experience in research administration, environmental health and safety regulatory compliance, and science operations at various academic and nonprofit institutions. She earned a master’s in public administration (MPA) with a concentration in nonprofit organizational leadership from Norwich University and a bachelor’s in psychology with a m