Rachel Slaybaugh

Board Member, People and Culture Committee Chair

2024

Board Observer

2022 - 2024

Board Member

2023

Partner

2023

Principal

2022 - 2023

I focus on climate tech at DCVC where DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar global problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. We are a Deep Tech venture fund with over $2 billion under management.

Independent Board Member

2022

Board Observer

2022

Board Member

2020

Founding Board Chair through 01/2023; Board Member 01/2023 through 12/2025 https://www.goodenergycollective.org/

Board Observer

2022 - 2024

Committee Member, Study on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the US

2020 - 2022

Division Director

2021 - 2021

• Source and select ∼10 hard tech innovators per year for a 2-year fellowship program to turn their technology concept into a product with a positive societal impact (∼$6M/year) • Fellows embed at LBNL where we support their technical development and collaborations • Responsible for outcomes, safety, and reporting to Department of Energy and LBNL leadership • Coordinate closely with Activate.org leadership in co-running the program

Associate Professor

2014 - 2021

• Frequent invited speaker on innovation in the nuclear energy sector at clean tech, academic, government, NGO, and international fora • Founded the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, which brings diverse students from around the world to learn skills essential to innovation in nuclear energy • Developing numerical methods for neutral particle transport with an emphasis on supercomputing and advanced architectures; applications in reactor design, shielding, and nonproliferation • Also mentored PhDs in optimization, thermal fluids, and cryptography and anomaly detection • Published 25 journal articles, 44 refereed conference proceedings, 3 technical reports, 2 book chapters, 5 open source pieces of software, and 2 policy pieces (http://rachelslaybaugh.github.io/CV/rns_publications.pdf) • Graduated 9 PhD and 4 MS students; research adviser for 1 assistant project scientist, 1 postdoctoral scholar, 1 visiting scholar, and 15 undergraduate students • Won >$2.5M as principal investigator (PI) and >$26M as co-PI for numerical methods research • Created and support a course in which Berkeley students do hands on science experiments at under-served elementary schools in Oakland