# Researcher Profiles

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## Alyssa Carrell: Exploring the microscopic world for maximum impact 

March 27, 2024

Alyssa Carrell started her science career studying the tallest inhabitants in the forest, but today is focused on some of its smallest — the microbial organisms that play an outsized role in plant health. 

## Assaf Anyamba: Sensing diseases from space

March 25, 2024

ORNL’s Assaf Anyamba has spent his career using satellite images to determine where extreme weather may lead to vector-borne disease outbreaks. His work has helped the U.S. government better prepare for outbreaks that happen during periods of extended weather events such as El Niño and La Niña, climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather worldwide. 

## Molecules in action: Canan Karakaya peers into reactor design using computational modeling

March 22, 2024

Canan Karakaya, a R&D Staff member in the Chemical Process Scale-Up group at ORNL, was inspired to become a chemical engineer after she experienced a magical transformation that turned ammonia gas into ammonium nitrate, turning a liquid into white flakes gently floating through the air. 

## KC Cushman: Seeing the forest and the trees

March 7, 2024

Cushman, a Liane B. Russell Fellow at ORNL, has been studying trees and forests in an effort to help humans care for them and improve the health of the planet. Cushman’s fellowship research at ORNL aligns with that, utilizing ground, air and space platforms to study trees and forests in the Southeast. 

## City without walls: Buildings, energy, psychology overlap for researcher Frank Li

March 1, 2024

Although he built his career around buildings, Fengqi “Frank” Li likes to break down walls. Li was trained as an architect, but he doesn’t box himself in. Currently he is working as a computational developer at ORNL. But Li considers himself a designer. To him, that’s less a box than a plane – a landscape scattered with ideas, like destinations on a map that can be connected in different ways. 

## Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage

February 16, 2024

Chelsea Chen, a polymer physicist at ORNL, is studying ion transport in solid electrolytes that could help electric vehicle battery charges last longer.

## Ilenne Del Valle: Rooting out clues to plant health with burbly microbes

February 1, 2024

Ilenne Del Valle is merging her expertise in synthetic biology and environmental science to develop new technologies to help scientists better understand and engineer ecosystems for climate resilience. 

## Louise Stevenson: Tiny life forms yield big insights into ecosystem health   

January 12, 2024

Louise Stevenson uses her expertise as an environmental toxicologist to evaluate the effects of stressors such as chemicals and other contaminants on aquatic systems.

## Alexey Serov’s inventions pave the way for green hydrogen fuel cells

December 19, 2023

It would be a challenge for any scientist to match Alexey Serov’s rate of inventions related to green hydrogen fuel. But this researcher at ORNL has 84 patents with at least 35 more under review, so his electrifying pace is unlikely to slow down any time soon.

## Alex May, OLCF’s first data curator, sets path forward to ensure dataset integrity

December 12, 2023

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