OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 12, 2014 – Juan Carlos Idrobo, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been recognized by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation with the 2014 Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for groundbreaking research in scanning transmission electron microscopy of 2D materials.
Idrobo works in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences' Microscopy group. The Ecuador native received his bachelor's in physics from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, his master's in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and doctorate in physics from the University of California, Davis. He joined the ORNL research staff in 2010.
The award is associated with Great Minds in STEM, a nonprofit organization that advocates science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers for the Hispanic community.
Idrobo resides in Knoxville.
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