Recognizing visionary scientists for exceptional research, leadership, and impact at PNNL.

Jingshan Du, a postdoctoral scientist at PNNL whose research focuses on crystallization pathways of water and other materials, was named a 2025 CAS Future Leader.

PNNL chemist Mark Engelhard has been chosen as president-elect of AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing

Postdoctoral scientist Jingshan Du received the Nanoscale Science and Technology Division Early Career Award from AVS.

Graduate student Ying Xia has been selected as a Graduate Student Award Finalist for the 2024 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting.

Battelle Fellow Johannes Lercher was elected a Foreign Academician by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Spain for his contributions to chemical science.

Sergei Kalinin honored with the David Adler Lectureship Award for contributions to materials physics through automated experimentation and ferroelectric materials work.

Bylaska and team will aim to make computational design of functional materials more targeted, impactful, and user friendly through this award.

The Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office recognized Livewire’s outstanding teamwork and technical expertise.

Jim De Yoreo, a Battelle fellow and materials scientist, was elected vice-chair of the National Academy of Engineering’s Materials Section.

PNNL’s Fatih Evren receives an ASHRAE best paper award for buildings-related research.

The International Association for Dental Research Mineralized Tissue Group awarded PNNL scientists and their collaborators a Best Paper recognition for research published in Nano Letters.

Andrew White goes back to his alma mater, Georgia Tech, as young alumni keynote speaker for the Sustainability Showcase, part of the university’s larger Sustainable Development Goals Action & Awareness Week.

Jim De Yoreo was appointed member of DOE’s Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.

The 98th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium will be co-organized by Shuai Zhang and Jim De Yoreo.

Two PNNL professionals have been selected to join the 2024-26 New Voices cohort at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Robert Rallo from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will direct a machine learning thrust for a new Department of Energy-funded project led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

PNNL’s Andrea Mengual co-chaired a working group that produced Building Performance Standards: A Technical Resource Guide. PNNL’s Kim Cheslak, Bing Liu, and Jian Zhang contributed to the effort.

Anuoluwapo Adeyemo and Parker Vice make significant contributions in buildings research during their summer internships at PNNL.

Wendy Shaw is a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, honored for her leadership role and impacts on the chemical sciences.