Benjamin Manard, a nuclear analytical chemist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the 2025 winner of the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award from Spectroscopy magazine. He leads the Chemical and Isotopic Mass Spectrometry group in ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Division. The magazine, which is published by MJH Associates, supports the development and application of spectroscopy across a diverse range of fields.
The honor recognizes the achievements and aspirations of a talented young atomic spectroscopist who has made strides early in their career toward the advancement of atomic spectroscopy techniques or applications. Manard will receive the award at the 2025 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, held March 2-7 in Berlin, Germany.
At ORNL’s Ultra-Trace Forensic Science Center, a state-of-the-art facility, Manard strives to improve trace elemental and isotopic analyses using plasma-based spectroscopic and mass spectrometric techniques. Before joining ORNL in 2018, he was a Glenn T. Seaborg postdoctoral research fellow and then staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his doctorate in analytical chemistry from Clemson University.
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