The Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate welcomes three joint appointees whose research focuses on topics related to materials science.

Jinhui Tao is chairing and organizing a crystal growth and epitaxy conference, while other PNNL staff serve as session chairs.

Parallel graph neural networks identify protein-ligand 3-D structural interactions to aid in protein function prediction and drug discovery.

Morris Bullock received an award and PNNL staff organized symposia and presented exciting research.

PNNL bioenergy expert Karthikeyan Ramasamy was a co-guest editor in an American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels virtual special issue on advances in biomass and wastes thermochemical processing.

A paper published last year by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was featured in the 2021 Editor’s Choice collection for the Cell Reports Physical Science journal.

Jingshan Du will serve a three-year term on the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.

Materials scientist joins the editorial board of inaugural journal, Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering.

Two PNNL staff recognized for work advancing materials synthesis and computational tools by selection to join the National Academy of Engineering.

PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte has been elected second vice chair to the ASTM D32 Committee on Catalysis.

PNNL catalysis expert Yong Wang has assumed an associate editor role for the Chemical Engineering Journal.

Chief Chemical Engineer Xiao-Ying Yu joins the editorial board of inaugural journal, Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering.

Chemist Patrick El-Khoury joins the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C for a three-year term.

Vanda Glezakou and Laboratory Fellow Roger Rousseau collaborated with other experts to write an American Chemical Society book chapter.

A hybrid computing approach for solving quantum chemical problems offers a practical bridge between classical and quantum computing.

PNNL’s Jie Xiao and Yuyan Shao are serving two-year terms on the executive committee of the Pacific Northwest section of The Electrochemical Society, which was chartered in October 2020.

Catalysis expert Johannes Lercher elected to the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, highlighting his global scientific leadership.

PNNL materials scientist Olga Marina has been appointed to the board of the Gen IV International Forum’s Very-High-Temperature Reactor organization.

PNNL chief scientist Jonathan Male has been named co-director of the joint Washington State University-PNNL Bioproducts Institute.

Arun Devaraj elected vice president of an international society representing the atom probe tomography researcher community.