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    Performing Scientific Research in Service of the Nation

    Enabling remarkable discoveries and tools that transform our understanding of energy and matter and advance national, economic, and energy security.

    Through the DOE Office of Science, Los Alamos conducts long-term, national security-inspired, fundamental science.

    These often high-risk/high-reward efforts enable remarkable discoveries and tools that transform our understanding of energy and matter and advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.

    News

    Early Career

    DOE Awards $135 Million For Groundbreaking Research By 93 Early Career Scientists 

    DOE Office of Science, 08/04/2023

    4 Los Alamos scientists win DOE Early Career Research Awards 

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, 08/07/2023

     

    Basic Energy Sciences, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

    New Quantum Light Source Paves the Way to a Quantum Internet

    DOE Office of Science, 11/2022

     

    High Energy Physics

    Atomic Armor for accelerators enables discoveries

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1/19/2022

     

    High Energy Physics, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

    Physical features boost the efficiency of quantum simulations

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, 12/1/2021

     

    Basic Energy Sciences

    Breakthrough Reported in Machine Learning-Enhanced Quantum Chemistry

    DOE Office of Science, 9/2022

     

    Nuclear Physics

    Unveiling the Existence of the Elusive Tetraneutron

    DOE Office of Science, 9/2022

     

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    Bruce Carlsten wins prestigious Wilson Prize

    Los Alamos honors three for research, leadership with Fellows Prizes

    Laboratory lands 2018 DOE Energy Frontier Research Center

    Top young Los Alamos researchers honored with DOE Early Career Awards

    Seven Los Alamos scientists, including 5 sponsored by the DOE Office of Science [Htoon (BES), Kawano (NP), Lewellen (HEP), Trugman (BES), Zapf (BES)], honored by American Physical Society as APS Fellows

    Carlsten, Nguyen and Sheffield win Free-Electron Laser Prize

    David L. Clark selected for 2017 Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry

    Ten Los Alamos scientists, including four sponsored by the DOE Office of Science, honored by American Physical Society

    Los Alamos scientist Christopher Lee to receive DOE Office of Science Early Career Award

    Laboratory Chemist selected as the 2015 recipient of the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry.

    Laboratory FES PI selected as Fellow by the APS Division of Plasmas Physics

    Laboratory researcher Joel Rowland to receive 2014 DOE Early Career Award

    Los Alamos Physicist Honored with 2013 E.O. Lawrence Award in  Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences

    Neutron reactions and climate uncertainties earn Los Alamos scientists DOE Early Career awards

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    Srinivas Iyer

    Program Director

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    Liz Sturgeon

    Proposal Manager

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    Chris Trujillo

    Program Analyst

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    Autumn Vigil

    Administrative Assistant

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    Kenya Garcia

    Project Manager