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Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road
Nuclear engineer and former ARPA-E program director takes the helm at the Lab’s division for entrepreneurial scientists
News Release By Kiran Julin •
January 7, 2021
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The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Rachel Slaybaugh, associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division. The announcement follows an international search.
Rachel Slaybaugh
Until recently, Slaybaugh served as a program director at DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), whose mission is to advance high-potential and high-impact energy technologies. She led programs supporting research in advanced nuclear fission reactors, agriculture technologies, and sensing and data analytics for four years, from 2017 through 2020.