We are happy to announce the awardees for the Pilot Year of BeamNetUS!

Principle Investigator (PI) NamePI InstitutionDesignated FacilityProposal Title
Gerrit BruhaugLos Alamos National LaboratoryAccelerator Test Facility (ATF), Brookhaven National LaboratoryOptical Waveguides for Enhanced Laser-Electron X-ray Production
Ingrid WilkeRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteArgonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA), Argonne National LaboratoryFiber-Coupled Electro-Optic Electron Beam Sensor
John SchmidtLos Alamos National LaboratoryFacility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET II), SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryGamma Ray Bursts in the Lab
Nebi SamuelHarvey Mudd CollegeNext Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA), SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryTesting Effectiveness of Secondary Electron Emission Grid for Transverse Beam Profile Determination of MeV Electron Beams
Byron FreelonUniversity of HoustonUltrafast Electron Diffraction (UED), Brookhaven National LaboratoryBenchmarking Anisotropic Phonon Dynamics in the 2D Magnet CrSBr
Henry ChenBrimrose Technology CorporationUpgraded Injector Test Facility (UITF), Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator FacilityRadiation Hardness Studies of Next Generation Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors and Scintillators
Auralee EdelenSLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryUltrafast High-Repetition-Rate Electron Diffraction (HIRES), Lawrence Berkeley National Accelerator LaboratoryReinforcement Learning for Fast, Precise Beam Customization at HiRES

Note: An award for use of BELLA, Lawrence Berkeley National Accelerator Laboratory is pending.

We apologize for the late announcement of this award.

We’d like to thank our review panel for their excellent work to evaluate the proposals and select the awards for our pilot year of BeamNetUS.

Members of the 2025 Review Panel

  • Patric Muggli (MPP, Germany, Chair)

  • Gerard Andonian (RadiaBeam, USA)

  • Michael Dion (JLab, USA)

  • Siddharth Karkare, (ASU, USA)

  • Jared Maxson (Cornell University, USA)

  • Nicole Neveu, (SLAC, USA)

  • Larry Nichols (CPSU, USA)

  • Andrew Patton (NextBeam, USA)

  • Suresh Pillai (TAMU, USA)

  • Jayakar Thangaraj (Fermilab, USA)

  • Louise Willingale (University of Michigan, USA)