Recognition

This year's DOE Early Career Research Program recipients: top row from left: Ben Zhu, Jennifer Shusterman and Steven Blazewicz. Bottom row from left: Kostas Kravvaris, Shusen Liu, Kyle Wendt and Filippo Scotti.
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DOE honors seven early-career Lab scientists

Seven LLNL scientists receive the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program (ERCP) award.

LLNL’s Mohror honored with prestigious technical computing award
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LLNL’s Mohror honored with prestigious technical computing award

LLNL's Kathryn Mohror wins the prestigious Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWLTC) Award.

Annie Kritcher, design physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award by Fusion Power Associates for her role as lead designer and team lead of the first experiment to achieve fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
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LLNL’s Kritcher receives Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

LLNL design physicist receives the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award for significant technical achievements and potential to become an influential leader in the fusion community.

Frank Miller has been awarded Livermore’s 2024 John S. Foster Medal.
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Franklin Miller awarded Livermore’s 2024 John S. Foster Medal

LLNL Director Kim Budil announces that the 2024 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Franklin Miller, a principal at The Scowcroft Group. 

The EXtreme-power, Ultra-low-loss, Dispersive Element (EXUDE) Elite optical element is one of three LLNL technologies awarded 2024 R&D 100 awards.
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Lab scientists win three R&D 100 awards

LLNL scientists and engineers earn three awards among the top 100 inventions worldwide.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Zhi Liao has been elected as a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
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SPIE names LLNL’s Zhi Liao a senior member

LLNL Zhi Liao has been elected as a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. 

LLNL’s Brent Stuart and Paul Armstrong have been named Optica senior members.
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Two LLNL researchers named to Optica’s 2024 class of senior members

LLNL researchers have been named senior members of Optica in recognition for more than 10 years of professional experience in optics or an optics-related field.

NIF Operations Manager Bruno Van Wonterghem, who has worked on NIF since the planning stages, received a Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates.
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Fusion Power Associates honors Bruno Van Wonterghem

Bruno Van Wonterghem, operations manager at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF), was awarded a 2024 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates (FPA).

Left to right: Hye-Sook Park (LLNL), George Swadling (LLNL), Anna Grassi and Frederico Fiuza.
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Two LLNL physicists honored for international collaboration

LLNL physicists Hye-Sook Park and George Swadling received the 2024 Lev D. Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics.

Yash Vaishnav received ”Best in Class” award from the Department of Energy’s Technology Transfer Working Group for his work on licensing nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs) technology to EVOQ Therapeutics.
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Innovation and Partnerships Office employee wins second national award

LLNL receives its second national recognition for collaborations surrounding the biomedical technology called nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs).