Kyle Pietrzyk receives The Lawrence Fellowship
The Lawrence Fellowship is a highly competitive postdoctoral position at LLNL that is open to all technical disciplines.
Kyle Pietrzyk, PhD student in the Multiscale Physics in Energy Systems Group advised by Ilenia Battiato, has won and accepted the prestigious Lawrence Fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL). The Lawrence Fellowship is a highly competitive postdoctoral position at LLNL that is open to all technical disciplines. Fellowships are awarded to candidates with exceptional talent, scientific track records, and potential for significant achievements. Fellows are free to pursue their own independent research agenda under the guidance of a senior staff scientist. At the conclusion of the fellowship, approximately 60% of the fellows secure a staff position at LLNL. The majority of those who leave obtain tenure-track positions at top-tier universities including MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. A number of former fellows have started their own companies.
“I will focus on automating and accelerating multiscale model development for electrochemical systems relevant to energy storage and energy transition technologies,” Kyle said. "Using symbolic computation to automate the analytical derivations required for rigorous model development, continuum models can be rapidly generated for systems of realistic complexities, including batteries, hydrogen storage systems, and carbon dioxide conversion systems. As a result, the time to develop a model reduces from months to seconds, and rigorous modeling techniques are democratized in a similar fashion to how computational physics softwares provide communal access to numerical methods.”
Explore More
-
Work has been cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President. The Report presents an overview of the nation’s economic progress and makes the case for the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic policy priorities.
The topics covered in this year’s report include: The Benefits of Full Employment; The Year in Review and the Years Ahead; Population, Aging, and the Economy; Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing; International Trade and Investment Flows; Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition; and An Economic Framework for Understanding Artificial Intelligence.
-
Saman Aryana, ESE Alumnus, Professor and Occidental Chair in Energy And Environmental Technologies, as well as Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, has been honored with a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Australia.
-
ESE's mock town hall "New Restrictions on Oil and Gas Operations Within a Health Protection Zone"