LLNL Director Kim Budil has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions in the field.
Recognition
Staff scientist Elizabeth Grace of LLNL has been awarded the 2026 European Physical Society-Plasma Physics Division (EPS-PPCF) Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize.
Abbas Nikroo, deputy director for physics integration at LLNL's National Ignition Facility, received the 2025 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates.
Rebecca Toomey, an LLNL postdoctoral research scientist, has been recognized with the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics’ Distinguished Service Award.
LLNL researchers were among those awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early-warning framework.
Director Kim Budil announced that the 2025 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Michael R. Anastasio, former director of both LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Wei Jia Ong, an LLNL staff scientist, has been recognized as the recipient of the APS 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics.
MIT Technology Review has named LLNL research scientist Xiaoxing Xia as one of its 2025 Innovators Under 35.
LLNL physicist Hye-Sook Park wins the Edward Teller Award by the American Nuclear Society.
Diana Chen, an LLNL optical engineer, has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.