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Slaybaugh named to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road

January 20, 2021, 6:57AMANS Nuclear Cafe

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The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently named Rachel Slaybaugh, ANS member since 2003 and associate professor of nuclear engineering at the University of California–Berkeley, to lead the lab’s Cyclotron Road Division.

Get to know her: Prior to coming to Berkeley, Slaybaugh served as a program director for the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), whose mission is to advance high-potential and high-impact energy technologies. From 2017 through 2020 at ARPA-E, Slaybaugh led programs supporting research in advanced nuclear fission reactors, agriculture technologies, and sensing and data analytics for four years.

About Cyclotron Road: Since 2015, Cyclotron Road, a division of Berkeley Lab’s Energy Technologies Area, has supported entrepreneurial scientists as they develop viable technology products through its fellowship program, which is operated in partnership with Activate, a nonprofit organization. Each year, through the fellowship program, Cyclotron Road recruits innovators who spend two years developing technologies that transform energy- and resource-intensive industries.

Keys: Slaybaugh’s key priorities will include annual recruitment of entrepreneurial scientists and engineers; development of funding, training, mentoring, and networking for future fellowship program cohorts; and expansion of the Cyclotron Road Division to include other entrepreneurial research and development initiatives.

Highly qualified: “The Cyclotron Road Division director needs to have a deep scientific understanding as well as a great discernment of what are game-changing technology ideas, how to support them, and what it requires to take a very early-stage idea to market,” said Ravi Prasher, the lab’s director for the Energy Technologies Area. “Rachel’s strong research background at UC Berkeley and her program leadership experience at ARPA-E make her exceedingly qualified to lead Cyclotron Road.”

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