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Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium 2024

November 21, 2024 at Argonne National Laboratory

The Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium (PRCS) 2024 was a one-day, in-person event held at Argonne’s TCS Conference Center on November 21, 2024. It was curated to promote collaboration through networking, and it enables industry and government leaders to connect with and recruit from the nation’s top scientific and engineering talent. 

Symposium Agenda

8:00 a.m. Registration and Refreshments  

Morning Session

8:45 a.m.    Welcome Remarks 
Dr. Sean Jones, Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Argonne National Laboratory

9:00 a.m.    Keynote Address 
Dr. Sean Jones, Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Argonne National Laboratory

10:00 a.m.  Poster Session A and Free Networking  

Networking Lunch

11:30 a.m.  Networking Lunch 

Afternoon Session

1:30 p.m.    Poster Session B and Free Networking 

3:00 p.m.   Career Panel
Dr. Rebecca Caravan, Assistant Chemist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Ying Shirley Meng, Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at UChicago and Chief Scientist for Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Sciences (ACCESS) at Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Stuart Miller, Vice President of Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Research Institutes, Founder of the Materials Discovery Research Institute at UL

Dr. Rachel Harris, Technical Project Manager with Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Michael Dziekan, Materials Engineer in the Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory

4:30 p.m.   Poster Awards and Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Awards 

Poster award winners

Carly Byron (CSE), Jason Gross (CFCT), Isiksu Buyker (AMD), Stefan Ilic (MSD), Hassan Harb (MSD), Caitao Zhan (DSL), Farah Naaz (ESIA)

Special Thanks 

Company Sponsorship: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Advanced Semiconductor Materials (ASM), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Exponent, General Motors (GM), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), KLA Corporation, Lam Research, UL Research Institutes

Symposium Support: Tina Henne, Early Career development Lead; Kathy Eggers, Argonne Leadership Institute; and Lynnean Celmer, Argonne Events Center of Excellence.

Judges: Connie Pfeiffer, Debolina Dasgupta, Ben Lenard, Pietro Papa Lopes, Yong Zhao, Louis McHugh, Michael Dziekan, Amy Trethaway, Francesco Salucci, Melissa Rose, Elena Galinski, Yu Li, Vitali Morozov, Muhsin Ameen, Pierre Darancet, Jeffrey Elam, Stephen Pratt, Ahmed Farghaly, Wenquan Lu, YuPo Lin, Michael Mara, Kevin Knehr, Julia Neumann, Sanja Tepavcevic, Hanu Arava, Aikaterini Vriza, Daniel Phelan, Rainbow Suh, Aaron Oaks, Richard Wilson, Nwike Iloeje, Ulises Gracida, Doris Oke, Jason Hall, Benjamin Diroll, Shiba Adhikari, Yong Luo, Michael Dziekan, Gosia Korbas, Xiaoyang Liu, Rakesh Iyer, Elena Galinski, Adarsh Bafana, Vitali Morozov, Hua Zhou, Alex Martinson, Joohan Kim, Paul Fenter, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Maria De La Cinta, Lorenzo Martin, Rebecca Caravan, Yu Li, Justin Connell, Zelimir  Djurcic, Adina Luican Mayer, Marco Rodrigues, Yue Li, Clayton Dickerson, Amanda Owen, Haidan Wen, Wei Chen, Aaron Oaks, Brian Ingram, Kevin Rader, Jordi Cabana, Thomas Wallner, Longfei Gao, Jan Hückelheim, Michael Kaminski, David Lenz, Jae Hyung Park

2024 Organizing Committee

Symposium Co-Chairs

Evan Toler, Livia Benvenutti 
Special thanks to previous co-chairs Shana Havenridge and Songrui Hou

Invited Speakers and Panels

Chair: Evan Toler
Members: Khagesh Kumar, Subhadip Mallick, Bintang Ayu Nuraeni, Kavitha Menon, Jacob Bryant, Emily Ruth Mikeska

Marketing and Publications

Chair: Mustafa Unal
Members: Yunkai Sun, Carly Byron

Technical Programs

Chair: Livia Benvenutti
Members: Adwaith Ravichandran, Abhishek Siddarth Bhesania, Gethmini Kasunka Jayasekara, Nighat Afroz Chowdhury

Company Outreach and Networking

Co-Chair: Farah Ferdaus and Nuwa Jayaweera
Members: Neeraj Hanumante, Debashis Das, Kiran Kumar Yalamanchi, Amey Luktuke, Tupendra Oli, Amanda Bachmann, Jiaqi Wang

Community Engagement

Chair: Shilpika
Members: Isiksu Buyuker, Jose Daniel Hernandez