Congratulations to Physical Sciences Area staff members who have received 2025 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards.
The 2025 Director’s Award for Lifetime Achievement was bestowed upon Kevin Einsweiler, a senior scientist in the Physics Division, “for achievements in collider physics at the LHC, Tevatron, SSC, and CERN Spbar-pS. These comprise physics analysis, instrumentation, and leadership, as well as major breakthroughs, measurements, and innovations, including the Higgs Boson, the W-Mass, pixel detectors, and numerous tests of the Standard Model.”
The 2025 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement were presented to PSA staff members and teams in several categories.
Jose Luis Rudeiros Fernández, a research scientist in ATAP’s Superconducting Magnet Program, received a 2025 Early Scientific Career Award “for outstanding innovations in superconducting magnets, including the “Uni-Layer” concept, a paradigm-shifting design for high-temperature superconductors; advances in fabrication processes that eliminate training quenches; and rising to the challenges of a new joint high-energy-physics and fusion-energy test facility.
Timon Heim, staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s ATLAS Group, received a 2025 Early Scientific Career Award “for his pivotal role in developing the next generation semiconductor detector technology, data acquisition software, and system integration for the ATLAS high luminosity upgrade at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, along with multiple other applications, and the mentorship of numerous younger colleagues.”
Members of the BELLA Center 10-GeV Core Team – ATAP scientists Alexander Picksley, Carlo Benedetti, Kei Nakamura, Hai-En Tsai, Carl Schroeder, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric Esarey, Cameron Geddes (ATAP Division Director), Anthony Gonsalves, and student interns Raymond Li and Joshua Stackhouse – received a 2025 Scientific Award “for pioneering and innovative work demonstrating high-quality 10-GeV laser-plasma acceleration at the BELLA Petawatt Facility — a milestone toward a compact, cost-effective next-generation high energy collider and applications benefitting the DOE and Berkeley Lab missions.”
Members of the GRETA Project Team – Nuclear Science Division (NSD) scientists Chris Campbell, Heather Crawford, Mario Cromaz, and Paul Fallon; Jeffrey Bramble, NSD Safety Coordinator; Engineering Division electrical engineers Collin Anderson, Tynan Ford, Thorsten Stelzelberger, and Vamsi Vytla, and mechanical engineers Eric Buice, Jennifer Doyle, and Li Wang; along with computing systems engineers Eli Dart and Eric Pouyoul (ESnet) and Tin Ho (IT Division) – received a 2025 Scientific Award “for delivering the project scope for the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a next generation microscope into the quantum world of atomic nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, on time and on budget with fully demonstrated performance.”
The 2025 Director’s Achievement Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 3:00-4:30 PM PT via livestream video and in Berkeley Lab’s Building 50 Auditorium. A reception will follow (4:30-5:30 PM) in the Building 91 Lounge and Terrace. Add these events to your calendar.
