Dr. Elizabeth Sooby is an Associate Professor  and Lutcher Brown Endowed Faculty Fellow in the departments of Physics and Astronomy and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  She received a 2022 DOE Early Career Award, the 2023 ANS Landis Award, and was honored by the UTSA Presidential Achievement in Research award in 2021. Dr. Sooby is an expert in fuels synthesis and testing, particularly uranium compound fabrication and high temperature steam oxidation testing. Prior to coming to UTSA in 2017, Dr. Sooby was appointed as a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she also held a Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Actinide Science following graduation with her Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M in December 2014. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Millsaps College in Jackson, MS.  She is the principle investigator of the Extreme Environments Materials Laboratory, a unique facility she developed at UTSA over the last 6.5 years, which is a 2,000 square foot radiological laboratory space dedicated to nuclear materials fabrication and testing.