Early Career Achievement Awards

NERSC values the energy and contributions of researchers at all career stages, including those just beginning their research journeys.

2017NUGAwards

The NERSC Early-Career Achievement Awards, given annually and announced to the NERSC user community, recognize work that has had or is expected to have an exceptional impact on scientific understanding, engineering design for scientific facilities, or a broad societal impact.

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Innovative Use of High Performance Computing Awards

Kyla de Villa

Kyla de Ville

PhD student, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science

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axel huebel

Axel Huebl

Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division

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Massimiliano Pasini

Massimiliano Pasini

Staff Data Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Coupled Physics Group

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High Impact Scientific Achievement Awards

Vinicius Mikuni

Vinicius Mikuni

NESAP Post-Doctoral Fellow, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Ronald Kouski

Ronald Kouski

Graduate Student, Iowa State University, Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate

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