U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award
This program, established in 2010, supports individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP).
2024-25 Honorees
Craig A. Snoeyink
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Craig Snoeyink, PhD, is an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. An emerging researcher in fluid and thermal sciences, Snoeyink is focused on developing micro- and nanoscale optical metrology techniques and utilizing them to study small-scall fluidic phenomena. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and American Chemical Society. Snoeyink is the recipient of a 2024 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program award for his research on the role of energy in continuous dielectrophoretic molecular separations. He is seeking to better understand why strong electrical fields are effective at separations and how they can be used to tackle important problems like the purification of rare earth elements, which is key to the shift to clean energy.