Gabriella Carini Leading New Technology Group at Brookhaven Lab
February 13, 2025
UPTON, N.Y. — Gabriella Carini is heading up a directorate to advance emerging technologies at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Carini was named associate laboratory director of the new Discovery Technologies Directorate on Oct. 1, 2024. In her new role, Carini will lead scientists and operations staff working together to streamline research and development (R&D) for state-of-the-art detectors, particle accelerators, quantum computers, and microelectronics.
The Discovery Technologies Directorate includes the Instrumentation and Accelerator Science and Technology departments, Magnet Division, as well as the Accelerator Test Facility and Quantum Network Facility. Planning is underway within the directorate to establish new departments to grow and expand existing Lab efforts in quantum information science and technology (QIST) and microelectronics, among other research areas.
“Gabriella Carini and world-leading staff in the new Discovery Technologies Directorate will help overcome complex technical challenges to increase the benefits science can produce for society,” said Brookhaven Lab Director JoAnne Hewett. “The creation of this directorate is part of a coordinated effort to provide unprecedented technical capabilities that advance our science mission and improve people’s lives.”
Innovation, technology, and discovery
Members of the Discovery Technologies Directorate will work with collaborators across Brookhaven Lab, DOE and its Office of Science, DOE’s national laboratories, and the National Nuclear Security Administration. They will continue to advance research programs for high energy physics, nuclear physics, national security, and more.
The new directorate will also serve as an incubator for strategic partnerships among governmental departments and agencies, academia, and industry to advance science, energy, and security initiatives.
“The creation of this directorate is part of a coordinated effort to provide unprecedented technical capabilities that advance our science mission and improve people’s lives.”
— Brookhaven Lab Director JoAnne Hewett
“Innovation and technologies lead to scientific discovery,” Carini said. “This new directorate will help researchers from different disciplines to work together and solve complex challenges, leading to new applications that stimulate growth and increase impact.”
Before her new role as associate lab director, Carini chaired Brookhaven’s Instrumentation Department and QIST working group. She spearheaded efforts to develop a QIST laboratory with a focus on quantum network research.
Carini will continue to oversee the quantum networking collaboration between Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University. She also continues to work with Stony Brook and other partners — including Columbia University — to expand a quantum network testbed for R&D that is key to unlocking the revolutionary impacts quantum computing technology can provide.
About Gabriella Carini
Carini joined Brookhaven in 2003 as a graduate student in Nonproliferation and National Security and then worked at the National Synchrotron Light Source research facility. She moved to DOE’s SLAC National Laboratory in 2011, where she led the Detector Department at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, before returning to Brookhaven in 2018. She has worked on developing cutting-edge microelectronics, particularly for operations in extreme environments and with limited power budgets.
Carini has authored and co-authored more than 175 publications and holds two patents.
Carini received the IEEE Emilio Gatti Radiation Instrumentation Technical Achievement Award in 2022 for the development of new radiation detectors that operate at the fundamental limits of performance to support a range of scientific discoveries and applications, including space telescopes and homeland security. She is a fellow of the Oppenheimer Science & Energy Leadership Program for exceptional leaders at the DOE national labs and their partners.
Carini earned her Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Palermo in Italy. She lives in Port Jefferson, New York.
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