Discovery Science,Health Science and Innovation,Plant Scienceschemistry09/05/2024Ask the expert: How — and why — do you harvest isotopes?Katharina Domnanich is helping FRIB prepare to provide a bounty of isotopes useful for medicine, plant science and more
  • Katharina Domnanich is an assistant professor working at the forefront of discovery at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB.
  • While FRIB creates isotopes the world has never seen before, it will also create isotopes that researchers are already studying for applications in medicine, plant science and more.
  • Domnanich is helping build a laboratory that will help accelerate those studies by “harvesting” those isotopes and, while doing so, she’s also exploring new research areas to help support FRIB’s mission.
Matt DavenportKatharina Domnanich (left) and Greg Severin (right) are working together to build an isotope harvesting laboratory at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.