Speakers

Ashley White

ALS Communications Director and Chair of the Charter Hill Strategic Planning Committee

Ashley White is the Director of Communications for Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and also leads the Energy Sciences Area's strategic planning efforts for the envisioned materials and chemistry campus on Berkeley Lab's Charter Hill site. In these roles, she draws on her background as a PhD materials scientist and science policy advisor in the U.S. Congress and National Science Foundation to convey key ALS accomplishments to current and potential users, federal funders and policymakers, and the general public, and to develop long-term plans and partnerships across the Energy Sciences Area.

Michael Brady

Bioprinting/Biomaterials Specialist at 3D Systems Corporation

Mike’s current passions focus on the development of novel hydrogel materials produced by photopolymerization-driven additive manufacturing and the use of these hydrogel scaffolds for human organ manufacturing. Prior to joining 3D Systems’ Bioprinting and Organ Manufacturing Group 3 years ago, he was a Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow within the Molecular Foundry and Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned the PhD in Materials Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara with Michael Chabinyc and Ed Kramer, and the BS in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Florida.

Marcus Noack

Research Scientist, CAMERA

Marcus Noack is a Research Scientist in the CAMERA group. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Oslo, Norway. At CAMERA he is developing mathematics and software for autonomous data acquisition. His software, called gpCAM, has been used to steer dozens of large-scale experiments at DOE facilities.

Brett Helms

Staff Scientist, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis

Brett A. Helms received his B.S. (2000) from Harvey Mudd College and his Ph.D. (2006) with Jean M. J. Fréchet at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the staff of the Molecular Foundry in 2007, after postdoctoral research at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven with E. W. (Bert) Meijer. In 2015, he co-founded Sepion Technologies, which is commercializing novel membranes for clean energy technologies.

John Tumbleston

Sr. R&D Manager at Carbon, Inc.

John has been with Carbon since 2013. He leads the Print Development Engineering team which is responsible for all aspects of process development from basic research to productization. As a postdoc at the ALS with Harald Ade, John studied the structure-performance relationships of organic solar cells.

Emory Chan

Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry, LBL

Dr. Emory Chan is a Staff Scientist at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab. Dr. Chan’s research interests include the high-throughput synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals for imaging and optical applications, in situ transmission electron microscopy of nanoscale reactions, and the application of machine learning to understand complex reaction networks.

Isvar Cordova

Systems Design Engineer at KLA

Isvar received his PhD from Duke University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he focused on optimizing the deposition and performance of ultrathin coatings largely fabricated using a “home-made” Atomic Layer Deposition system. Isvar then spent about 4 years at Berkeley Lab, where he first gained an appreciation for the power of the unique techniques and expertise available at the ALS, and then went on to work at CXRO where he learned how many of these techniques could address some of the latest challenges faced by CXRO’s partners from the semiconductor industry. Isvar is now a System Design Engineer for KLA’s FaST (Films and Surface Technology) Advanced Development group, where he is part of a team that is constantly developing the next generation of process control tools essential to the viable manufacturing of modern semiconductor devices.