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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 Mitchell Pietrzyk

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.”

 

 

 

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