Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium 2025

The Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium (PRCS) 2025 was a one-day, in-person event held at Argonne’s TCS Conference Center on October 31, 2025. 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 
Raeanna R. Sharp-Geiger, Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations/Chief Operations Officer

9:00 a.m.   Keynote Address
Claus Daniel, Associate Laboratory Director for Argonne’s Advanced Energy Technologies (AET) directorate

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

3:00 p.m.   Career Panel: Career Readiness in the Age of AI
Dr. Henry Huang, Director, Energy Systems and Infrastructure Assessment (ESIA) Division, and Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Senior Scientist and Group Leader, DSL Data Science Learning, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Kibaek Kim, Computational Mathematician, MCS, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Briana Konnick, Senior Director of Career Development for University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Dr. Di-Jia (DJ) Liu, Senior Chemist, Chemical Sciences and Engineering (CSE), Argonne National Laboratory

4:30 p.m.   Poster Awards Winners
Hassan Harb (MSD), Rachel Wallick (CSE) , Victoria Castagna Ferrari (CSE), Kyobin Park (AMD), Kiran Kumar Challa (EISA), Brandon Kriesten (HEP), Satya Prakash Joshi (CSE), Mohammad Ramadan, (MCS), Marco Mangano (MCS)

Special Thanks

Company Sponsorship

AMD, Aramco Americas, Argonne National Laboratory, ASM, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Honeywell UOP, MathWorks, MP Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PsiQuantum, UL Research Institutes

Symposium Support

Tina Henne, Early Career development Lead
Kathy Eggers, Argonne Leadership Institute
Lynnean Celmer, Argonne Events Center of Excellence
Joann Ball, Digital Content Producer

Judges

Jiang Luo, Julia Neumann, Beihai Ma, Charudatta Phatak, Connie Pfeiffer, Yong Zhao, Daniel Phelan, Francesco Salucci, Guiliang Xu, Tadesse Billo, Lisa Utschig, Yang Zhou, Mustafa Unal, Patrick O’Donnell, Raghu Sivaramakrishnan, Stephen Pratt, Timothy Ashenfelter, Victoria Cooley, Yuri Georgievski, Zelimir Djurcic, Zou Finfrock, Ahmed Farghaly, Aditya Koneru, Debolina Dasgupta, Hanu Arava, Jeffrey ELAM, Joohan Kim, Michael Kaminski, Di-Jia Liu, Louis McHugh, Cinta Lorenzo Martin, Alex Martinson, Michael Dziekan, Adwaith Ravichandran, Yeonsig Nam, Chi Thang Nguyen, Zhao Li, Lorenzo Nocivelli, Vitali Morozov, Amanda Owen, Pietro Papa Lopes, Haihua Liu, Dillon Fong, Longfei Gao, Phay Ho, Gary Hu, Martha Elena Galinski, Cailin Buchanan, Gethmini Jayasekara, Rishu Khurana, Doris Oke, Hua Zhou, Pradeep Vyawahare, Peter Zapol, Siddharth Shukla, Thomas Wallner, Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Rebecca Caravan, Arna Ganguly, Luke Hwang, Demetra Adrahtas, Katherine Asztalos, Pierre Darancet, Yu Li, Ulises Gracida, Rakesh Kamath, Sagar Bhatt, Arthur Dizon

Organizing Committee members

Co-chairs

Caitao Zhan and Farah Naaz

Technical Programs

Chair: Sari Alkhatib
Members: FNU Kurniawan, Galiia Galimova, Jesse Prelesnik, Aileen Luo, Matthew Nisbet, Thang Pham, Ahmad Naquash, Haider Niaz, Md Shariful Islam

Company Outreach and Networking

Chair: Patrick Wells
Members: John Russell, Jiang Luo, Xin Zhang, Fakhrul Hasan Bhuiyan, Ramsharan Pandey, Ngoc Dang, Mina Kim, Sraddha Agrawal

Invited Speakers and Panel

Chair: Pooja Basavaraj
Members: Omar Ahmed, Utkarsh Chaudhari, Connor Gallin, Suman Kumari, Zhao Li, Chaoyang Ti, Hossam Farag

Marketing and Publications

Chair: Alisha Bhatt
Members: Matthew Swindall, Timothy Kim, Evelyna Wang, Kali Rigby, Xinran Lian

Community Engagement

Chair: Alejandra Medrano Banda
Members: Michael Stuhr, Leah Rynearson, Kelly Cohen, Sungil Hong, Soumya Samanta