Athena Sefat

Athena Safa Sefat, born 1977 in Iran[1] is a Canadian/American physicist, with research focus on quantum materials and correlated phenomena.[2] She was a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and led the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical, Electronic, and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality". She is currently a Program Manager at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, with Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.[3]

Athena Sefat
Athena Sefat

Sefat earned a PhD from McMaster University (Canada), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Ames Laboratory. She joined ORNL in 2007 and was awarded the prestigious DOE Office of Science Early Career Award[4] for the period 2010–2015. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society[5] and the Institute of Physics.[6] She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Committee on International Freedom of Scientists,[7] and the Materials Research Society New Meetings Subcommittee.

References
  1. press release knoxnews.com,2015
  2. "Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Athena S Sefat".
  3. Sefat, Athena. "Department of Energy - Basic Energy Sciences". Energy.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  4. "Athena Safa Sefat: Then and now | US Department of Energy Science News | EurekAlert! Science News". www.eurekalert.org. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  5. "Six ORNL researchers elected fellows of the American Physical Society | ORNL". www.ornl.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  6. "ORNL's Sefat named Institute of Physics Fellow | ORNL". www.ornl.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  7. "American Physical Society - Committee on International Freedom of Scientists".
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