2012 Cohort Profiles

2012 Fellow Profiles

U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science Graduate Fellowship
2012 Graduate Fellowship Awardees

Raffaela Abbriano, University of California - San Diego, San Diego, CA
Marine Biology

Adam Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
High Energy Physics

Dennis Ashford II, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Inorganic Chemistry

Rebecca Belisle, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Materials Science

Edward Biegert, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Martin Blood-Forsythe, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Kristen Boydstun, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Astrophysics

Justin Brown, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Astrophysics

Danielle Chirdon, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Inorganic and Organic Materials Chemistry

Theresa Christian, University of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, CO
Physics

Rita Cook, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Chemistry

Adam Dishaw, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
High-Energy Experimental Physics

Eric Dzienkowski, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
High Energy Theory

Carlos Esteva, Stanford University, Austin, TX
Materials Science

Peter Fiflis, University of Illinois - Urbana -Champaign, Urbana, IL
Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

Eli Fox, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Atomic Physics

Allison Gill, Boston University, Boston, MA
Ecology, Biogeochemistry

Sean Hackett, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Quantitative and Computational Biology

Jane Herriman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Materials Science

Noah Horwitz, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Physical Chemistry

Katherine Isaacs, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA
Computer Science

Lara Jazmin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Chemical Engineering

Bethany Jochim, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Colin Kinz-Thompson, Columbia University - New York, New York, NY
Chemistry

Paulina Kolic, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Analytical Chemistry

Rebecca Krall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
High Energy Physics

Aaron Kuan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Applied Physics

Evan Macquarrie, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Condensed Matter Physics

Samuel McCandlish, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
High Energy Theory

Brian McCarthy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Inorganic Chemistry

Alexander McLeod, University of California - San Diego, San Diego, CA
Infrared Spectroscopy

Tarun Narayan, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Inorganic Chemistry

Samuel Penwell, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Physical Chemistry

James Pikul, University of Illinois - Urbana -Champaign, Urbana, IL
Mechanical Engineering

Thomas Rembert, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Electrical Engineering

Hannes Roberts, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
High Energy Physics

Matthew Rosenberger, University of Illinois - Urbana -Champaign, Urbana, IL
Mechanical Engineering

Rahul Sheth, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Computer Science

Chris Sosa, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Chemical and Biological Engineering

David Stark, University of Texas - Austin, Austin, TX
Plasma Physics

David Stuck, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Theoretical Chemistry

Jessica Swallow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Materials Science

Jonathan Ticknor, Duke University, Durham, NC
Environmental Engineering

Siddharth Venkat, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Theoretical Physics

Sacha Verweij, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Applied Physics

David Weinberg, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Physical Chemistry

Bryan Weinstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Applied Physics

Toby Woods, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Inorganic Chemistry

Sander Zandbergen, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Semiconductor Quantum Optics