Slaybaugh named to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road

About Cyclotron Road: Since 2015, Cyclotron Road, a division of Berkeley Lab’s Energy Technologies Area, has supported entrepreneurial scientists as they develop viable technology products through its fellowship program, which is operated in partnership with Activate, a nonprofit organization. Each year, through the fellowship program, Cyclotron Road recruits innovators who spend two years developing technologies that transform energy- and resource-intensive industries.

Keys: Slaybaugh’s key priorities will include annual recruitment of entrepreneurial scientists and engineers; development of funding, training, mentoring, and networking for future fellowship program cohorts; and expansion of the Cyclotron Road Division to include other entrepreneurial research and development initiatives.

Highly qualified: “The Cyclotron Road Division director needs to have a deep scientific understanding as well as a great discernment of what are game-changing technology ideas, how to support them, and what it requires to take a very early-stage idea to market,” said Ravi Prasher, the lab’s director for the Energy Technologies Area. “Rachel’s strong research background at UC Berkeley and her program leadership experience at ARPA-E make her exceedingly qualified to lead Cyclotron Road.”