Distinguished Staff Fellowship candidates must demonstrate their ability to contribute to one (or more) of the following cross-disciplinary research initiatives:
- Scale computing and data analytics to exascale and beyond for science and energy
- Deliver transformational R&D to enable integrated energy systems and advancements in manufacturing
- Discover and design next-generation materials and chemical processes for energy
- Understand complexity in biological and environmental systems
- Provide strategic capabilities in isotope R&D and production
- Achieve breakthroughs in nuclear science, technologies, and systems focusing on fusion and fission
- Deliver science and technology to address complex national security challenges in cyber resilience and intelligence, geospatial sciences and human security, and nuclear nonproliferation
- Elucidate the principles of fundamental physics and particle interactions