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

PNNL's Tegan Emerson was invited to be one of two plenary speakers at the inaugural AIM 2022 congress. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society organized AIM 2022 to connect materials and manufacturing researchers from around the world.

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

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

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.

Chatterjee will lead a multi-laboratory effort on analytic development within CISA’s Risk Architecture Lab Performers Council.

Working on puzzles with her grandpa helped instill Emilie Purvine’s interest in math from an early age. That interest later turned to being co-captain for her high school math team, a degree in mathematics, and eventually a career at PNNL.

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

Four research staff from PNNL are part of an international team that earned top honors for a journal paper focused on a new algorithm-evaluation approach for buildings.

Anika Halappanavar’s research into COVID-19 misinformation earned her recognition by the Washington State Academy of Sciences as one of the state’s top high school researchers.

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 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.

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