Yuting Luo, an assistant professor in materials science and engineering and Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, was named the 2024 recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award.
This award has been given annually by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) user organization since 2004. It recognizes important scientific or technical accomplishments at (or beneficial to) the APSby a young investigator. Typically, the recipient is a senior graduate student or early career researcher. The APS is a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility located at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory.
“Receiving the Rosalind Franklin Award from the APS fills me with deep honor and excitement. This recognition inspires me to further my commitment to bridging knowledge gaps and driving innovation, and I am genuinely humbled by this honor.” — Yuting Luo, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University
The award is named for Rosalind Franklin. The chemist played a critical, but largely unacknowledged, role in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Luo specializes in designing and characterizing multi-scale materials for energy storage applications. Her research looks at the correlation among chemical, electrochemical and mechanical properties. She aims to understand their impact on functional performances.
A visiting research student at Argonne since 2019, much of Luo’s work was accomplished at the APS.
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Image : Yuting Luo is the winner of the 2024 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award
Credit: Johns Hopkins University