Adapted from this Berkeley Lab press release
Carolin Sutter-Fella is one of three scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive funding through the Early Career Research Program (ECRP).
The Department of Energy today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the nation to receive funding for research as part of the program. This year’s awardees represent 50 universities and 12 DOE National Laboratories across the country.
The ECRP program, now in its 15th year, bolsters the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work. Awards to an institution of higher education will be approximately $875,000 over five years and the minimum request for awards to a DOE national laboratory or Office of Science user facility are approximately $2,750,000 over five years.
Sutter-Fella’s ECRP project, “Accelerated Robotic Design of Energy Materials (ACE Lab),” aims to integrate robotics with machine learning to accelerate the discovery of new energy and quantum information materials called chiral perovskites. In collaboration with the Advanced Light Source and the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), the ACE Lab – which will be available to the materials science community through the Molecular Foundry’s user program – will allow researchers to discover new energy materials and tune their functional properties in real time during synthesis. Among her many honors, Sutter-Fella is also the recipient of a 2017 Berkeley Lab Early Career Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) award for her project, “In-situ Investigation of Chemical Precursor Transformation: Towards a Predictive Science of Synthesis.”
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