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Department of Energy Fellow Changing the Energy Landscape

Name: Hannah Nedzbala (she/her) PhD: Chemistry, Yale University, 2024 What was your main area of research? My research was at the...

Oct 12, 20244 min read

Analyst for the Department of Energy & a Book Author

Name: Magdalena Sandoval Donahue (she/her) PhD: Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2016 What was your main area of...

Oct 1, 20243 min read

Soil Scientist Pursued Her Curiosity & Passion for Knowledge

Name: Wendy Peterman (she/her) PhD: Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, 2014 What was your main area of research? I studied...

Oct 1, 20242 min read

Data Scientist Encourages Coding Skills

Name: Lauren Carter (she/her) PhD: Geography and Environmental Science, University of South Florida, 2023 What was your main area of...

Sep 24, 20242 min read

Civil Servant for the Government of India Impacts Policy

Name: Dhananjay Singh (he/him) PhD: Business Administration (Sustainable Supply Chain Management), Indian Institute of Technology...

Sep 21, 20243 min read

AI Researcher Loves Working With Messy Data

Name: Victor Murcia (he/him) PhD: Materials Science and Engineering, Washington State University, 2022 What was your main area of...

Sep 16, 20242 min read

Chemistry Fellow Says Leaving Academia Is Not Failing

Name: Kimberly Villar (she/her) PhD: Pathology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2023 What was your main area...

Sep 13, 20242 min read

Associate Director Emphasizes Having a Positive Attitude

Name: Joelle Martin (she/her) PhD: Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health; Virginia Tech, 2021 What was your main area of...

Sep 5, 20242 min read

A Cell Biologist Working in Patent Law

Name: Percy Griffin (he/him) PhD: Molecular Cell Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020 What was your main area of research?...

Sep 3, 20242 min read

Specialist Leverages New Tech in Publication Development

Name: Marianna Johnson (she/her) PhD: Molecular Metabolism and Cancer Biology, University of Chicago, 2017 What was your main area of...

Aug 28, 20244 min read

Strategic Alliances Manager Working on a Global Scale

Name: Yara Reis (she/her) PhD: Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, 2011 What was your main area of research? My research involved...

Aug 23, 20243 min read

NASA Scientist Studies Effects of Space Radiation & Lunar Dust

Name: Egle Cekanaviciute (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2014 What was/is your main area of research? I currently...