LEEP Fellowship
Invests students and early career scholars with mentoring support for LEEP Fellowship in energy systems, manufacturing, and materials science.
The Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) is a two-year fellowship operated by the DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) that places early-stage technical founders inside four DOE national laboratories. The four LEEP nodes are Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA), Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory (Lemo…
Early-stage energy and clean manufacturing technology startups; founders with technical degrees and R&D backgrounds working on novel materials, energy hardware, or manufacturing innovations.
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