Navigating a National Lab Career

The Department of Energy’s seventeen National Laboratories provide a career path that’s in between academia and industry. And the National Labs are hiring, with a number of Labs having hiring needs that are greater than 1000 staff/year. Nevertheless, the National Labs are relatively unknown to many students (and faculty) in academia. In this presentation, an overview of the Department of Energy National Laboratories is provided as well as a description of possible trajectories that span from graduate student for the duration of one’s career (as in the case of the speaker) to a variety of short-term internships, post-doc appointments, and staff positions.