Other Awards and Honors
2011 Awards
Elizabeth Stephens, Maria Luna, and Daniel Chavarría Named in Top 40 Under 40
Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology (HE&IT) magazine publishes a list of the "Top 40 Under 40"—individuals who are recognized as making an impact on shaping technology for the future early in their careers. This fall, HE&IT's list will add three PNNL staff members to its ranks.
Elizabeth Stephens, Energy and Environment Directorate, is a member of the Energy Materials Group, whose research extends from fundamental science to applied studies, in conjunction with Department of Energy projects that focus on lightweight, high-strength material applications and enabling technologies. She has won numerous awards, including a Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, a PNNL Scientific Technical Achievement Recognition Award, a HENAAC Most Promising Engineer National Award, and a Washington State Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement Award. In addition to these accomplishments, Elizabeth also was recently selected by HE&IT magazine as one of the "2011 Top 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology."
Maria Luna, Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate, is a member of the Biological Separations & Mass Spectrometry group, where she focuses on proteomics and metabolomics technologies for the biomedical and modern biological research community. Maria is also involved with the Advanced Processing & Applications Group in projects that study, treat, and vitrify radioactive wastes and supports the Environmental Assessment Group research that focuses to eradicate airborne and surface pathogens. Luna has received numerous Outstanding Performance Awards from multidisciplinary projects and has completed the Science and Engineering Development Program. She has co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications.
Daniel Chavarría, Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate, is a senior research scientist in the High Performance Computing group. Daniel was recognized for his work in parallel and distributed systems, compilers for high-performance and parallel computing, reconfigurable computing, programming languages, and interactions of architectural features with software systems. He has also served as a co-principal investigator for PNNL's Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Architecture, which performs research on the use of multithreaded architectures for non-traditional parallel applications and is the PI on a project funded by the DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research program. Additionally, he has published over 35 papers and collaborated on several others. (announced 1/1/2011)