Employee Spotlights

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	Jeff Greeley This year, Argonne materials scientist Jeff Greeley received an Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy. Below, Jeff shares some thoughts about the trajectory of his research and his long-lasting relationship with scientific inquiry.	February 5, 2012
	Jinlong Zhang Argonne physicist Jinlong Zhang received an Early Career Research Award to design and build instruments to measure particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.	February 5, 2012
	Doug Sisterson Doug Sisterson is a research meteorologist at Argonne who works with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility as manager of its Southern Great Plains site and Instrument Mentor Coordinator. The user facility has been operating climate observing sites around the world for nearly two decades.	February 5, 2012
	Kawtar Hafidi Kawtar Hafidi is an experimental physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, studying how fundamental particles, namely quarks and gluons, form nucleons and nuclei. She leads the Women in Science and Technology (WIST) program at Argonne.	February 5, 2012
	Dan Abraham Daniel Abraham is a leading scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and conducts research in the field of lithium-ion batteries. He leads the effort to identify performance degradation mechanisms in lithium-ion cells to enable development of alternative materials and components that enhance cell performance, calendar life, and safety.	February 5, 2012
	Charles "Chick" Macal Charles (Chick) Macal is a senior systems engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. He specializes in a type of computer simulation called agent-based modeling, which calculates likely decisions for each "actor"— one person, for example—in a simulation and then sees what impact those have on other agents. He has applied agent-based modeling to simulate the spread of MRSA bacteria, to forecast economic panics and to predict consumer behavior, among other projects.	February 5, 2012
	Tom LeCompte Tom LeCompte served as the physics coordinator for the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment, a 3,000-person collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. This experiment studies the collisions of protons at the highest energies yet achieved.	February 5, 2012
	Thomas Wallner Thomas Wallner is a mechanical engineer with Argonne's Center for Transportation Research. His work focuses on improving engines and adapting them to use different fuels, including the "Omnivorous Engine", which automatically calibrates itself to any mix of fuels.	February 5, 2012
	Jorge Alvarado Jorge Alvarado is a chemist with Argonne's Environmental Sciences Division. He studies methods to remove toxic pollutants from contaminated soil and water, including the ubiquitous 1960s pesticide carbon tetrachloride.	February 5, 2012
	Seth Darling Seth Darling is a scientist at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials. He builds new materials for solar energy, with the aim of creating cheaper and more efficient solar cells.	February 5, 2012