Hosted by: President’s Council of Student Advisors (PCSA)
Monday, May 20, 2024; 12p.m. – 1p.m. Eastern US time
Sponsored by the ACerS President’s Council of Student Advisors (PCSA), the May webinar will feature one speaker: Navigating a scientific career in the National Labs.
DESCRIPTION
Navigating a scientific career in the National Labs
In this talk, Dr. Vasudevan will explain his career journey at Oak Ridge National Lab, from when he started as a postdoctoral research associate, through to his recent experiences as a Group Leader at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. He hopes this will be informative and encourage others to consider the National Labs as a promising career option for young scientists.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan is a Group Leader of the Data NanoAnalytics group, and Senior R&D Staff Scientist and Data Analytics Coordinator at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He completed his PhD in materials science, specifically scanning probe microscopy of ferroelectric materials, in 2013 from the University of New South Wales, before joining the CNMS as a postdoctoral researcher in 2013.
He won the ORNL postdoctoral researcher award in 2015 for work on atomic scale electrochemistry. In conjunction with colleagues at CNMS, he won the MicroscopyToday Innovation award in 2019 for developing software to automatically extract atomic coordinates of atoms and defects from noisy microscopy images, and an R&D100 Award in 2023 for an autonomous microscopy physics discovery platform. He has 150+ peer reviewed publications and is an associate editor of the IOP Journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology. His current research interests include ferroelectrics, scanning probe microscopy, and reinforcement learning for physics and materials science applications.
MODERATOR BIOGRAPHY
Priya Kushram, Washington State University
Priya is a third-year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University, USA. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. After her master’s, she worked at ExxonMobil for one and a half years before starting her PhD. Her current research involves 3D printing of calcium phosphate to fabricate bone-like scaffolds for non-load-bearing applications. She also utilizes calcium phosphate coating on metal implants using plasma spray for load-bearing application.
Her research involves utilizing natural medicinal compounds such as curcumin, an extract from turmeric, and allicin, an extract from garlic, to treat bone diseases such as osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and bacterial infection and improve bone growth. She is currently a delegate of the President’s Council of Students Advisor of the American Ceramic Society, serving as a member of the professional development committee. She is also the recipient of the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science- Diamond Award 2023, awarded by the American Ceramic Society.
REGISTRATION
ACerS member: no cost
ACerS GGRN and Material Advantage student member: no cost
Non-member: $30
Non-member student: $15
If you have any questions, please contact Vicki Evans.
This webinar is brought to you by the ACerS President’s Council of Student Advisors.
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