ALS Doctoral Fellowships in Residence
The Advanced Light Source (ALS), a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a national user facility that generates intense x-ray radiation for scientific and technological research. As the world's first third-generation synchrotron radiation source, the ALS offers outstanding performance in the VUV-soft x-ray energy range and excellent performance into the hard x-ray region. The facility welcomes researchers from universities, industries, and government laboratories around the world. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Applications to Shape the Future of Synchrotron Radiation Science
Synchrotron radiation is now an established tool in many areas of physical and biological science. The ALS Doctoral Fellowships will allow beginning researchers to work at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and to help advance state-of-the-art applications.
The Fellowships enable students who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying or comprehensive verbal and written exams (generally third-year students) to acquire hands-on scientific training and develop professional maturity for independent research. Applicants must be full-time, currently enrolled students in a Ph.D. program in the physical or biological sciences, pursuing thesis research based on the use of synchrotron radiation.
The fellowships are offered as one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal. Successful applicants will be compensated with a $15,000 annual stipend. Additionally, fellows will be matched with an on-site mentor (generally a beamline scientist) and have access to ALS resources, including beamtime. Fellows are expected to present their results at a meeting or as a seminar at the end of the fellowship year.
Applications are due by May 1 for an appointment to coincide with the following academic year.
Interested applicants should submit a completed application form, a two-page description of their research plan, a resume with publications list, and two to three letters of reference by e-mail to kgreen@lbl.gov, by fax to (510) 486-7793, or by standard mail to
ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence
c/o Kamala Green
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 90-1140
Berkeley, CA 94720
2002-03 Fellowship winners
The selection committee selected the following award recipients for the 2002-03 academic year: Alejandro Aguilar (Univ. of Nevada, Reno, ion spectroscopy), Andreas Augustsson (Uppsala University, molecular and material physics), Henry Chong (Univ. of California, Berkeley, femtosecond x-ray spectroscopy with a slicing source), David Edwards (Princeton University, environmental geochemistry), Daniel Rolles (Technical University, Berlin, atomic and molecular physics), and Zhe Sun (University of Colorado, condensed matter physics).
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