2024 Director’s Awards for Lifetime Achievement
The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award: Marca Doeff
Citation: In recognition of Marca Doeff, a woman scientist, leader, and mentor, for outstanding contributions to the battery field, incredible service to the electrochemical society, and instrumental role in promoting IDEA during 35 years of dedicated service to the lab.
The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award: Kevin Lesko
Citation: For extraordinary contributions to pioneering neutrino and dark-matter experiments and establishing an international underground scientific laboratory for scientific explorations and STEM workforce training.
The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award: Kai Vetter
Citation: In recognition of Kai Vetter’s career-spanning achievements in radiation detection and imaging, his impact on science and society, and his commitment to developing the next generation of scientific leaders.
2024 Stewardship Award
2024 Stewardship Award: Andreas Scholl
Citation: For his continual and consistent contributions and strategic vision to advanced X-ray instrumentation techniques at ALS, his stewardship of ALS during the pandemic, and his dedication and inclusion of IDEA that have shaped the positive culture of ALS.
2024 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement
2024 Early Scientific Career: Julia Correa
Citation: Dr Correa has demonstrated new research pathways that combine fiber optic sensing, permanent seismic sources, and timelapse seismic imaging, opening new avenues for the detection of changes in shallow crust fluid and fault processes caused by anthropogenic activities.
2024 Early Scientific Career: Haegyum Kim
Citation: For contributions to advancing the scientific understanding of synthesis-structure-property performance relationships in inorganic functional materials, including beyond Li-ion batteries, and for contributions to synthesis and characterization tools for accelerated materials discovery.
2024 Early Scientific Career: Frederik Schulz
Citation: In recognition of Dr. Schulz’s exceptional scientific achievements, leadership, and innovative strategic initiatives in environmental and health-related microbial and viral genomics and diversity, in support of JGI’s community science and the Biosciences and Berkeley Lab’s mission.
2024 Early Scientific Career: Gregory Su
Citation: In recognition of Dr. Su’s achievements in developing novel insights and capabilities, including in situ X-ray methods, to probe and control the structure, formation, and performance of polymer membranes for water treatment and electrochemical energy applications.
2024 IDEA Award – Community: Christin Buechner
Citation: For her steadfast dedication and innovative, impactful contributions to IDEA, and for being a driving force in advancing the understanding and integration of diversity and equity into the community and culture at Berkeley Lab.
2024 IDEA Award – Community: Ina Reichel
Citation: For collaborative, consensus-driven leadership and a combination of a scientific approach and tireless effort in driving positive change to make Berkeley Lab a more attractive and equitable workplace, as well as for extensive and selfless work in STEM outreach.
2024 IDEA Award – Community: NSD IDEA Council 2022 – Mark Bandstra, Heather Crawford, Tom Gallant, & Ernst Sichtermann
Citation: For championing the reduction of the stigma of mental illness by proposing a change to the Lab’s sick leave policy to explicitly support sick leave for mental illness.
2024 IDEA Award – Outreach: Paolo Ferracin
Citation: For exemplary dedication and commitment in proactive teaching and mentorship at levels ranging from high schools to graduate particle accelerator schools, offering education not available through traditional venues— in addition to a demanding job as a research leader.
2024 Organizational Impact: Centennial Bridge Replacement Project – John Braithwaite, Suzanne Budd, Tammy Carlson, Orlando Casiano, Blair Edwards, Anthony Fernandez, Steven Filippoff, Timothy M. Hart, Jim Hawley, Nikki Humphreys, Igor Kligman, & Richard Lopatto
Citation: For visionary cross-functional teamwork to improve Lab safety and operations by replacing an earthquake-prone and landslide vulnerable hazard, the old Centennial Bridge, with an innovative viaduct solution that will serve and protect the Lab and the community for decades to come.
2024 Organizational Impact: Kelsey Miller
Citation: Kelsey Miller has improved awareness, processes, culture, and compliance of human subjects research at the Lab and across the DOE complex, and created new opportunities for professional development through her leadership in the Early Career Employee Resource Group.
2024 Organizational Impact: Scientific Equipment Installation (SEI) Team – Joshua Ballesteros, David Blake, Robert Coleman, Millard (Skip) Dunham, Darren Finger, Alejandro Guardado, Jenny Ledesma, Shiva Sadula, Benjamin Sandmann, & Matthew Vieira
Citation: For the success of developing an exceptional service delivery strategy positively impacting the Lab research community through the establishment of a cross-divisional Scientific Equipment Installation team to deliver new or upgraded research capabilities.
2024 Safety: Multi-Lab Safety Week Leadership Team: – Asmita Patel & Patricia Thomas
Citation: For the visionary leadership that created ATAP Safety Day and evolved it into the present Multi-Lab Safety Week, which offers an annual safety-culture reset and enriched learning opportunities to multiple Divisions at Berkeley Lab and three other national laboratories.
2024 Scientific: HL-LHC-AUP Cabling Core Team – Elaine Buron, Stephanie Chan Shum, Jean-François Croteau, Paolo Ferracin, George Fraley, Chris Georgiou, Hugh Higley, Elizabeth Lee, Andy Lin, Karen Lingua, Michael Naus, Asmita Patel, Ian Pong, Soren Prestemon, Patricia Thomas, & Brian Zatkow
Citation: For leadership and performance in completing the large, complex, and technically challenging multi-year Cabling Task of the High-Luminosity LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project (HL-LHC-AUP). This DOE 413.3b project greatly enhances the LHC’s position as the forefront particle accelerator for high-energy physics.
2024 Scientific: XFEL Structures in Photosynthesis Team – Paul David Adams, Asmit Bhowmick, Aaron Samuel Brewster, Margaret Doyle, James Holton, Jan Kern, Hiroki Makita, Nigel Moriarty, Isabela Irene Nangca, Daniel Paley, Nicholas K. Sauter, Philipp Stefan Simon, Vittal K. Yachandra, Junko Yano, & Miao Zhang
Citation: For extraordinary, trail-blazing team science to make seminal discoveries in the fundamental process of oxygenic photosynthesis found in plants, algae and cyanobacteria.
2024 Societal Impact: Lithium at the Salton Sea Report Team – Margaret Busse, Sandy Chin, Patrick Dobson, Dev Millstein, Nori Nakata, Peter Nico, Christina Procopiou, Meg Slattery, Jeremy Snyder, Eric L. Sonnenthal, Susan L. Sprinkle, Nicolas Spycher, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, & William T. Stringfellow
Citation: For an outstanding example of applying Berkeley Lab expertise to advise on a pressing societal question.
2024 Tech Transfer: Gao Liu
Citation: In recognition of Gao Liu’s groundbreaking research and outstanding records of inventions in multifunctional materials for energy storage technologies, exceptional mentorship of emerging researchers, and extensive collaborations with the global scientific communities and industry stakeholders.
2024 Tech Transfer: Jay Keasling
Citation: It is difficult to overstate the impact of the tech transfer model and culture that Jay Keasling built at JBEI. His efforts have resulted in successful tech commercialization as well as contributed to the building of the local startup ecosystem.
2024 Tech Transfer: Thin Triple Window Team – Dragan Charlie Ćurčija, Howdy Goudey, Robert Hart, & Brendon Milne Smith
Citation: For shepherding thin triple windows from early stage concept to mass production at multiple US-based facilities.
