2023 Director’s Awards for Lifetime Achievement

 

The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award: Ashok Gadgil

Citation: In recognition of Ashok Gadgil’s exceptional career-long and unwavering commitment to create technological innovations for safe drinking water, clean air, sustainable energy, and reduced infant mortality that have profoundly benefitted the health and dignity of low-resource communities around the world

 

The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award: Gary Jung

Citation: For bringing extraordinary leadership, vision, and commitment to LBNL’s scientific computing capabilities.

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Stewardship Award

 

2023 Stewardship Award: Anthony Spadafora

Citation: For career-spanning contributions to the leadership and management of diverse scientific projects in the Physics Division, which had a great impact on their success and brought wide recognition to LBNL, and for providing thoughtful guidance to numerous Berkeley leaders and colleagues.

 

 

 

2023 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement

2023 Early Scientific Career: Sam Barber

Citation: For leadership and technical contributions that paved the way for robust laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs), and for pioneering their applications as high-brightness injectors and free-electron laser drivers, resulting in demonstration of coherent gain in an LPA-driven FEL.

 

 

2023 Early Scientific Career: Kanupriya Pande

Citation: For the development of a new algorithm that allows fully automated and robust alignment and reconstruction of X-ray tomography data without the need for alignment markers. This enables analysis of previously unusable data and yields high-res 3D reconstructions.

 

 

2023 Early Scientific Career: Archana Raja

Citation: Dr. Raja’s research has provided novel pathways into controlling energy, charge and information transport within 2-D solids on the length scale of individual electrons by utilizing 2-D material heterostructures and their sensitivity to the local environment.

 

 

 

2023 Early Scientific Career: Zhi Jackie Yao

Citation: Dr. Yao embraces the spirit of co-design and has emerged as a critical cross-area leader of LBL’s emerging microelectronics initiatives.

 

 

 

 

2023 IDEA Award – Community: Rosa Rodriguez-Flores

Citation: For her exceptional 25+ year track record of serving as a leader of the Lab’s Latin American Native American (LANA) Employee Resource Group and a steadfast advocate for the needs and voices of the Latin American and Native American communities inside and outside the Lab.

 

 

2023 IDEA Award – Outreach: Monica Hernandez

Citation: For her exemplary and sustained efforts to operationalize IDEA in the dissemination and outreach of quantum information science quantum information science and technology at the Lab, including bilingual content for communities underrepresented in the field, thereby inspiring diversity and representation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 IDEA Award – Mentorship: Mentoring@LBNL: Caren Chung, Mary Barnum, Meg Rodriguez, Alex Degg, Janie Pinterits, Justin Placencia, Deb Agarwal, Ann Almgren, Jerri Carmo, Carol Chien, Lisa Claus, Kate Coldwell, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Kenneth Higa, Shannon Kotter, Nikki Humphreys, Susan Lucas, Jimmy Mai, Maria Maroudas, Natasha Nelson, Asmita Patel,  Brian Quiter, Ambily Rajappan, Sdiqa Sharifi, Ashley White, Antoine Wojdyla, and Charlette Lim Yankowitz

Citation: For building the critical foundations of a complex mentoring ecosystem that fulfills different employee needs around mentorship while also modeling the value of team science and cross-Lab collaboration over a 3 year period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Organizational Impact: ALS Logistics Team | Kristin Carrillo and Celena Loredo

Citation: For developing new standards of efficiency, reliability, and flexibility that have enabled and enhanced remote operations at the ALS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Organizational Impact: Design Basis Threat (DBT) Implementation Core Team: Alyssa Brand, Michael Carreon, John Christensen, Evelyn Davies, Blair Edwards, Kurt Etinger, Vassiliki Fissekidou, Joel Garcia Orozco, Isaac Geeslin, Stephen Goslin, Matthew Dodge Holman, Armond Huff, Martin Neitzel, Ingrid Peterson, Chris Rosen, Michael Wisherop, and Julie Zhu

Citation: For the conclusion of a 3-year effort to install over $1.4 million dollars of security systems to include developing new lab-wide policies, procedures, and controls to protect high consequence materials resulting in the full acceptance of the LBNL DBT program by DOE.

 

2023 Organizational Impact: Richard Gregory

Citation: For saving the Laboratories millions of dollars through brilliant and tenacious negotiations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Safety: Molecular Foundry ISM Team: Michael Connolly, Rohan Dhall, Liana Klivansky, Tracy Mattox, Anne Pham, and Jeffrey Urban

Citation: For the development, publication, and promotion of cross-disciplinary approaches to safety that support inclusive team science.

 

2023 Safety: Ron Scholtz

Citation: In recognition of Ron Scholtz for his steadfast commitment to best practices in safety by creating a comprehensive blueprint for performing safety walkthroughs, and for his many leadership contributions to the Lab’s overall safety culture.

 

 

 

2023 Scientific: Ann Almgren

Citation: Dr. Almgren’s leadership in algorithm development, software design and applications have led to transformative developments in scientific computing. Through the Exascale Computing Project, she has delivered exascale simulation capability spanning a wide range of applications to the scientific community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Scientific: The Superfacility Team: William Arndt, Debbie Bard, Johannes Blaschke, Shane Canon, Ravi Cheema, Shreyas Cholia, Bjoern Enders, Lisa Gerhardt, Annette Greiner, Chin Guok, Damian Hazen, Doug Jacobsen,  Stefan Lasiewski, Jason Lee,  Kelly Rowland, Chris Samuel, Ashwin Selvarajan, Alex Sim, David Skinner, Cory Snavely, Laurie Stephey, Rollin Thomas, Gabor Torok, Becci Totzke, Xi Yang

Citation: For developing and demonstrating the revolutionary Superfacility concept, coupling high performance computing, networking, services and tools with a range of experimental and observational science facilities spanning multiple science domains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Scientific: WarpX Team: Ann Almgren, John Bell, Arianna Formenti, Marco Garten, Kevin Gott, Junmin Gu, Axel Huebl, Revathi Jambunathan, Hannah Klion, Prabhat Kumar, Remi Lehe, Andrew Myers, Ryan Sandberg, Olga Shapoval, Jean-Luc Vay, Weiqun Zhang, Edoardo Zoni

Citation: For an innovative accelerator modeling development code, WarpX, which pushed forward the state of the art via algorithmic innovation and high-performance computing at exascale—achievements made in the Berkeley Lab tradition of team science.

 

2023 Societal Impact: Interconnection Team: Will Gorman, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Dana Robson, Joachim Seel

Citation: The Interconnection Team’s work has served as a foundational resource for stakeholders engaged in reforming how generators connect to the power grid. It has facilitated a shared understanding of the nature of the challenge and is directly motivating institutional reform.

2023 Tech Transfer: Lee Bernstein

Citation: Lee Bernstein has passionately supported commercialization of his invention, a production method for a groundbreaking but rare cancer drug called AC-225. His innovation and commitment will save thousands and boost the Lab’s reputation as a leader in nuclear medical technology.

 

 

2023 Tech Transfer: Melanie Sonsteng

Citation: In recognition of Melanie Sonsteng’s tireless, exceptional service to Cyclotron Road and its 86 fellows and their startup companies who have collectively raised over $1B in follow-on funding and hired more than 900 employees while commercializing their groundbreaking research