Speakers

SPEAKERS DAY ONE

Eric M. V. Hoek

Professor, UCLA Samueli Engineering School

Dr. Eric Hoek is a professor in UCLA’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and the California NanoSystems Institute. He is also the Director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. His research explores the union of membrane technologies, nanomaterials and electrochemistry for water, energy and environmental applications. He is also NAWI’s Deputy Area Topic Leader for Process Innovation & Intensification and Editor in Chief of the open-access Nature journal npj Clean Water.

Laura Nielsen Lammers

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Faculty Scientist, LBNL

Laura Lammers is an environmental geochemist in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department at UC Berkeley who studies the impact of fluid complexity on mineral-aqueous interface chemistry. Her group investigates crystal growth, adsorption, and ion exchange phenomena to selectively control the transport and transformations of nutrients, contaminants, and critical elements.

Daniel J. Miller

Staff Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL

Dan completed his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied fouling of water purification membranes by produced water. He accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at LBNL in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis in 2014, and a staff scientist appointment in the Chemical Sciences Division in 2015. Dan's interests in membrane science include membranes for water purification, electrochemical applications, and gas separations.

Sergi Molins Rafa

Research Scientist, EGD, EESA, LBNL

S.M. is a research scientist with extensive experience in the field of reactive transport modeling in porous media for applications relevant to water, energy and the environment. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia and a Civil Engineering degree from the Technical University of Catalonia

David Jassby

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA

David Jassby is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University (2011), an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Davis (2005), and a B.Sc. in Biology from Hebrew University (2002). David’s research is primarily concerned with membrane separations, environmental electrochemistry, and water treatment technologies. His lab is currently engaged in research concerning membrane development, desalination, industrial wastewater treatment, oil/water separations, and the electrochemical treatment of contaminated water. He holds several patents on electroactive membranes and processes, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

Piotr Zarzycki

Research Scientist, Discovery Geosciences Group

Dr. Piotr Zarzycki is a research scientist in the Discovery Geosciences group, Energy Geoscience Division at LBNL. His research focuses on developing and applying molecular modeling methods to study the chemistry of the surface and subsurface systems, including those occurring in the reactive geological fluids, at the mineral/aqueous solution interfaces, in involved in the mineral dissolution, precipitation, and transformation.

David Trebotich

Staff Scientist, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, LBNL

David Trebotich's research involves end-to-end development of high resolution algorithms for complex flows in multiscale systems using adaptive, finite volume methods and implementation into hpc science application codes (e.g., Chombo-Crunch). Current applications of interest revolve around solution to flow and transport equations in complex media--geological (subsurface), engineered (battery electrodes, paper drying felt). Prior to the Berkeley lab, David was staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing from 2001 to 2009, and before that a post-doc at UC Berkeley after completing his Ph.D. there in 1998.

Jasquelin Pena

Associate Professor / Faculty Scientist

Jasquelin Pena is an Associate Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis and a Faculty Scientist in EESA at LBL. She is interested in using tools from molecular and environmental (bio)geochemistry to address water security issues.

Peter Nico

Soil and Environmental Biogeochemist; Staff Scientist; Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure Program Domain Lead

EESA, LBNL

SPEAKERS DAY TWO

Chenhui Zhu

Staff Scientist at the ALS

Chenhui Zhu received his Ph. D in Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder before he did his postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. He is currently a Staff Scientist at the Advanced Light Source in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Joseph Nichols

Postdoctoral Fellow at Beamline 11.3.1

Joseph Nichols is at the ALS on a collaborative postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Utah Composites Laboratory. His work focuses on building and commissioning of the new nanotomography endstation at beamline 11.3.1

Ethan Crumlin

Staff Scientist at ALS and CSD

Ethan J. Crumlin is the ALS APXPS & CS Program Lead and a PI within the CSD CPIMS program specializing in the investigation of solid/gas and solid/liquid interfaces using APXPS. He will be representing the APXPS & CS Program PIs, Moika Blum, Oleg Kostko, and Slavo Nemsak to share the insight and capabilities we have to offer.

Sirine Fakra

Research Scientist at the ALS

Wanli Yang

Senior Scientist at the ALS

Wanli Yang works on soft X-ray XAS/RIXS at the ALS in both technical developments and data analysis methodology. His scientific interests focus on understanding and optimizing energy materials.

David Shapiro

Staff Scientist at the ALS

Hans Bechtel

Staff Scientist at the ALS

Hans Bechtel is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently, he is the Infrared Program Lead at the ALS, where he develops state-of-the-art infrared instrumentation and collaborates with users to measure novel samples and materials.

Martin Kunz

Senior Scientist at the ALS

Martin Kunz is senior staff scientist at the ALS. He is running the non-ambient condition X-ray diffraction beamline 12.2.2.

He obtained his Ph.D. in mineralogical crystallography at the University of Bern, Switzerland and worked in academia and at the European Synchrotron Facility before joining the ALS in 2003. His interest focuses on developing and adapting techniques that enable exploring Earth materials in-situ at their relevant sub-surface conditions using X-ray diffraction.

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