PNNL

Kim DeSousa is a systems engineer and leads the Instrument Development and Automation Laboratory (IDAL) at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy, Office of Science user facility located at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). In this position, DeSousa contributes to the development of EMSL and PNNL-wide automation strategy while providing technical subject expertise to projects leveraging advances in robotics and automation for scientific applications.

DeSousa leads IDAL in developing and deploying multiple automated platforms including the Automated Soil Analysis Platform (ASAP), for EMSL's Molecular Observation Network (MONet), the Anaerobic Molecular Phenotyping Platform (AMP2) for EMSL's Digital Phenome (DigiPhen), and acts as a technical subject matter expert for the Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability (M2PC), a new 30,000 square-foot addition to EMSL with a planned 12,000 square-foot automated laboratory.

• Automating laboratory processes  
• Management 
• Mentoring 

• BS in neuroscience and in psychology (double major), University of Toronto 

• The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 
• FIRST Robotics