Three young scientists named postdocs at Argonne
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ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 2, 2007) — Three young scientists with promising
careers ahead of them have been appointed as postdoctoral
fellows at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
- Jana Zaumseil has been appointed the 2007 Ugo Fano Postdoctoral Fellow.
She will conduct research at Argonne's Center
for Nanoscale Materials.
She comes from the Cavendish
Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, United
Kingdom. Her research there has focused on ambipolar transport in polymer
semiconductors and light-emitting polymer field-effect transistors.
- Ross Young has been appointed the 2007 Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral
Fellow. He will pursue his research in Argonne's Physics
Division. He
comes to Argonne from the Thomas
Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
A major focus of his research has been lattice-QCD-related hadron-physics.
- Gregory Halder has been appointed the 2007 Arthur Holly Compton Postdoctoral
Fellow. He will conduct research in Argonne's Materials
Science Division.
He comes to Argonne from the University
of Sydney, Australia, where his
work has focused on polynuclear spin-crossover molecular switches.
"The 2007 fellows display superb ability in their fields," said
Argonne Director Robert Rosner. "I'm confident that combining their talent
with Argonne's world class facilities and staff will generate exciting new
directions for research and will launch them on to distinguished careers."
The fellowships are named after scientific and technical luminaries who have
been associated with Argonne, its predecessors and the University of Chicago
since the 1940s. Fellowships are competitively selected and are awarded for
a two-year term, with possible renewal for a third year.
"Attracting and retaining the best and brightest young scientific talent
is the goal of the Postdoctoral
Fellow Program at Argonne, and to help us better
achieve that goal, we have recently reorganized and expanded our postdoctoral
programs," said Harold Myron, director of Argonne's Division
of Educational Programs.
The overall program comprises three separate postdoctoral opportunities: The
Argonne Named Postdoctoral
Fellowship, the Director's
Postdoctoral Fellowship and Division
Postdoctoral Appointments. They will be overseen by the newly
created Argonne Postdoctoral Committee.
Al Sattelberger, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, which
oversees Argonne's Educational Programs, said he believes reorganizing the
programs under one oversight group will help insure the quality of the programs
and will help Argonne be competitive in attracting talented young scientists
and engineers.
Strengthening the postdoctoral programs is part of the laboratory's talent
initiative, which strives to further develop the quality of Argonne's science
and operations staff to meet research and development challenges of the future. “The
ultimate goal of the initiative is to develop a systematic approach for attracting,
developing and retaining personnel, as well as a thoughtful approach to educating
the next generation of scientists and engineers,” said Sattelberger.
"It may be something of a cliché to say that an organization's
most important asset is its people, but in the case of Argonne, it's true," said
Rosner. "We want to be the best in the world at what we do — innovative
research and development in the national interest, focusing on some of the
hardest scientific and technical problems facing our nation. To succeed we
must attract, develop and retain world-class and diverse personnel." — Donna
Jones Pelkie
Argonne National Laboratory brings
the world's brightest scientists and engineers together to find exciting and
creative new solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology.
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic
and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne
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and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific
problems, advance America 's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for
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the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office
of Science.
For more information, please
contact Steve McGregor (630/252-5580 or media@anl.gov)
at Argonne.
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