Initiative Lead – Dan Schreiber

Dan Schreiber is a materials scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Schreiber's research is focused on nanoscale microstructural characterization of materials using a combination of electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. Since joining PNNL in 2011, he has developed correlated high resolution analytical techniques to study corrosion and stress corrosion cracking processes in nuclear materials and environments and also performed fundamental experiments on selective oxidation processes in model alloy systems in high-temperature water environments.

Chief Scientist – Mitra Taheri

Mitra Taheri is the Chief Materials Scientist in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Taheri is also a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, director of the Materials Characterization and Processing facility, and a member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute. Her research primarily concerns electron microscopy, with a specific focus on in-situ microscopy. Taheri’s team designs and builds platforms to study materials in a wide range of environments including high temperatures, stress, radiation, oxidation, and more.

Workflows and Integration Thrust Lead – Robert Rallo

Robert Rallo is a chemist and computer scientist who serves as the director for the Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is also an affiliate professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Before joining PNNL, Rallo was an associate professor (2007–2016) and director of the Advanced Technology Innovation Center (2012–2016) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Catalonia. His research interests focus on the development and application of AI to support scientific discovery.

Operando Synthesis and Characterization Thrust Lead – Joe Ryan

Joe Ryan is a materials scientist and team lead within the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory National Security Directorate's Advanced Engineered Systems group. He specializes in the study of the structure and properties of materials with a focus on surface-related techniques and effects. A Fellow of the American Ceramics Society, Ryan has approached materials science problems by leveraging a wide variety of processing and characterization techniques to achieve novel functionality in bulk and thin-film materials. He is a member of the Glass Additive Manufacturing International Consortium—a group that is looking to achieve real-time feedback for property-specific materials fabrication.

Theory, Simulation, and Models Thrust Lead – Jenna Pope

Jenna Pope is a data scientist in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research focuses on the application of data science and deep learning to chemistry and materials science. Her projects are highly interdisciplinary and involve close collaboration with both experimentalists and modelers/theoreticians.