MentorTalks: Yes, You Can – Women in STEM
Dr. Anna Grassellino, Physicist, Senior Scientist, and two-time BridgeUSA ExchangeAlumni, joins MentorTalks to chat about her career and the impact of her two exchange programs on Wednesday, October 5 at 10:00 a.m. ET on @VoicesofExchange on Instagram.
From a small coastal town in Sicily, Italy to the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Grassellino - physicist, senior scientist and director of the Superconducting Quantum Materials & Systems Center at Fermilab - is inspiring girls in STEM and beyond.
Join us to hear how a summer internship during her junior year of college inspired Anna to pursue her dream career, and led to her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania before becoming the Senior Scientist and the head of the SQMS division at Fermilab, a leading national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
As she leads a team of 200 scientists that is developing the most powerful quantum computer in the world, Anna will share about her time at Fermilab, and how she manages work-life balance with a family at home. We’ll learn about her influence on young women and girls in STEM, and why she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers by President Obama.
Tune in October 5 on Instagram, and we’ll see you online!
Speaker Bio
Anna Grassellino is the Director of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, a Fermilab Senior Scientist and the head of the Fermilab SQMS division. She hold an adjunct faculty appointment at Northwestern University, where is Co-Director of the Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technology (CAPST). Her research focuses on radio frequency superconductivity, in particular on understanding and improving SRF cavities performance to enable new applications spanning from particle accelerators to detectors to quantum information science. Grassellino is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of numerous awards for her pioneering contributions to SRF technology, including the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award, the Frank Sacherer Prize of the European Physical Society, the IEEE PAST Award, the 2016 USPAS prize and a DOE Early Career Award. She holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s of electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy.