Inquiry 2016, Issue 2

Inqui r y I ssue

| 2016

Inqui r y I s sue

| 2016

Jiles named Jefferson Fellow

David Jiles, Palmer Endowed Chair of the Iowa

State University Electrical and Computer Engineering

department, and Ames Laboratory associate has been

named a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. State

Department.

The Jefferson Science Fellowship is open to tenured

or similarly ranked faculty from U.S. institutions of

higher learning who are U.S. citizens. Jefferson Science

Fellows spend one year on assignment at the U.S. De-

partment of State or U.S. Agency for International De-

velopment as science advisors on foreign policy issues.

Assignments are tailored to the needs of the hosting of-

fice, while taking into account the Fellows’ interests and

areas of expertise. As part of their assignments, Jefferson

Fellows have the opportunity to travel to U.S. embassies

and missions overseas. Following the fellowship year,

the Jefferson Science Fellow returns to

his/her academic career, but remains

available to the U.S. government as an

experienced consultant for short-term

projects.

Jiles, an Anson Marston Distin-

guished Professor of Engineering at

ISU, is one of 12 Jefferson Fellows

named in 2016. His research interests

include magnetism and magnetic ma-

terials, nonlinear and hysteretic behav-

ior of magnetic materials; magnetoelasticity, magnetostric-

tion, and magnetomechanical effects; development of novel

magnetic materials; and biomedical engineering applications,

including the development of transcranial magnetic stimula-

tion for noninvasive treatment of brain disorders.

Gordon receives INCITE grant

Ames Laboratory scientist Mark Gordon was awarded

a 2016 INCITE grant from the DOE’s Office of Science.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact

on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program was

created as a primary means for scientists to access the

DOE’s supercomputers at Argonne and Oak Ridge na-

tional laboratories.

The award to Gordon includes 200 million proces-

sor hours of computing time on the IBM Blue Gene/Q

supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory. His re-

search team will use the hours to study anions (negative-

ly charged ions) such as chloride, fluoride and bromide

in water, as well as ionic liquids and the processes that

occur in them.

Anderson inducted into National Academy

of Inventors

Ames Laboratory senior metallurgist Iver Anderson

was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors

(NAI) at a special ceremony in

Washington, D.C. at the United

States Patent and Trademark

Office (USPTO).

The ceremony, which was held

as part of the NAI’s Fifth Annual

Conference, welcomed 168 new

Fellows into the academy. Each

Fellow was presented with a special

trophy, a medal and a rosette pin.

The NAI Fellows Selection

Committee creditedAnderson for demonstrating a “highly

prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating

outstanding inventions that have made tangible impact

on quality of life, economic development, and welfare

of society.”

Iver Anderson

Bertoni awarded Margaret Butler Fellowship

Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University PhD

student Colleen Bertoni has been named the recipient

of the Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational

Science.

Bertoni will spend 2017 at the

Argonne Leadership Computing

Facility (ALCF), a DOE user

facility at Argonne National

Laboratory. She will work as a post

doctoral fellow at the ALCF, where

she will advance her quantum

chemistry studies of liquid water

and ion solvation by employing

and optimizing ab initio-based

fragmentation methods on the

facility’s supercomputers.

Colleen Bertoni

David Jiles

Canfield awarded APS McGroddy Prize

Professor Paul C. Canfield, a senior scientist at Ames

Laboratory, has been awarded the James C. McGroddy

Prize for New Materials by the American Physical

Society (APS).

Canfield, who is also a Dis-

tinguished Professor and the Rob-

ert Allen Wright Professor of Phys-

ics and Astronomy at ISU, was

selected for the prize “for develop-

ment and use of solution growth

of single crystalline intermetallic

materials to design, discover, and

elucidate new heavy fermion, su-

perconducting, magnetic, and

quasicrystalline states.” He will be awarded the prize,

which consists of a certificate and honorarium, at the

2017 APS March meeting in New Orleans.

Paul Canfield

Perras awarded Banting Fellowship

Frédéric Perras, a post-doctoral researcher at the

Ames Laboratory, has been awarded a Banting Fellow-

ship by the Government of Canada and the National

Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Can-

ada (NSERC).

Perras joined the Ames Labo-

ratory in 2015 after he was named

the Laboratory’s first Spedding

Fellow, a position created to

recognize exceptional research

achievements. He conducts re-

search in Ames Laboratory senior

scientist Marek Pruski’s group,

specializing in solid-state NMR

spectroscopy, including dynamic

nuclear polarization (DNP-NMR).

Frédéric Perras

Kreyssig and Yu named APS 2016 Fellows

Ames Laboratory scientists Andreas Kreyssig and

Edward Yu were named 2016 Fellows of the American

Physical Society (APS).

According to APS, Kreyssig was

elected for “elucidating the rela-

tionships between the structural,

magnetic, and superconducting

properties of iron-arsenide high-

temperature superconductors.”

Kreyssig is a physicist in the

Laboratory’s Division of Materi-

als Science and Engineering, and

an adjunct associate professor

of physics in the Department of

Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University.

Yu was elected for “his distinguished contributions to

the field of efflux transporters, which mediate resistance

to a variety of antimicrobials in bacteria, and his research

into the crystallography of integral

membrane proteins.”

Yu is a professor of Chemistry

and of Physics & Astronomy. He

was named the John D. Corbett

Professor of Chemistry in 2014 and

elected as a Fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement

of Science that same year.

Andreas Kreyssig

Fox appointed International Francqui

Professor Chair

Professor Rodney Fox has been appointed to an

International Francqui Professor Chair as part of the

Francqui Foundation, based in

Belgium. Fox will travel to Belgium

for a six-month stay in late 2016

and early 2017. His main host will

be the Laboratory for Chemical

Technology in Ghent, Belgium.

The chair is named for Emile

Francqui, a Belgian serviceman,

politician and business man. He

and President Herbert Hoover

established the foundation in 1932

to support higher education and research in Belgium.

Fox was also named early this year as recipient of

the AIChE Shell Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle

Systems. This award recognizes an individual’s recent

outstanding scientific/technical accomplishment which

has made a significant impact in the field of fluid particle

systems or in a related field with potential for cross

fertilization with relevance to the topics of interest to

PTF community.

Rodney Fox

Covey named FLC Mid-Continent Tech Transfer

Professional of the Year

Debra Covey, associate lab director and director of

Sponsored Research Administration at Ames Laboratory

was named the 2016 Technology Transfer Professional of

the Year by the Federal Laboratory

Consortium (FLC) Mid-Continent

Region.

The award recognizes the efforts

of an FLC laboratory technology

transfer professional or team who

has demonstrated outstanding

work transferring technology in

a manner significantly over and

above what was called for in the

normal course of work.

Covey was recognized for playing a significant role in

the institution of the Ames Laboratory-led CaloriCool

consortium for the discovery and development of

environmentally friendly andenergy-efficient refrigeration

technologies. She is also credited with expanding

non-disclosure agreements, intellectual property

management, and collaborative R&D agreements that

link the members of Ames Laboratory’s Critical

Materials Institute.

Debra Covey

Edward Yu