(He/Him)
Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, LBNL
Member, Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley
jbneaton[at]lbl.gov, jbneaton[at]berkeley.edu
543 Birge Hall, University of California, Berkeley
4241, Building 50, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
510.486.4527
Administrative Contacts
Anastasia Palmer
Sr. Administrator - LBL Energy Sciences Area Office
avpalmer[at]lbl.gov
Nicholas Moore
Administrator - LBL MSD
nmoore[at]lbl.gov
Maria Feng
Administrator - UC Berkeley
mariafeng[at]berkeley.edu
510.642.9345
529 Birge Hall, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellows
Francisca Sagredo
(She/Her)
fsagredo[at]lbl.gov
Yusuf Shaidu
(He/Him)
yshaidu[at]berkeley.edu
Graduate Students
Rahoul Banerjee Ghosh
(They/Them)
Chemistry
rahoulbanerjeeghosh[at]berkeley.edu
Brian Xiao
(He/Him)
Physics
brian_xiao[at]berkeley.edu
Zui Tao
(She/Her)
Chemistry
taozui[at]berkeley.edu
Stephen Gant
(He/Him)
Physics
stephen_gant[at]berkeley.edu
Sijia Ke
(She/Her)
Materials Science Engineering
sijia_ke[at]berkeley.edu
Pedro Guimaraes Martins
(He/Him)
Chemical Engineering
pedrogm[at]berkeley.edu
Caroline McKeon
(She/Her)
Chemistry
mck[at]berkeley.edu
Tyler Reichanadter
(He/Him)
EECS
jtreichanadter[at]berkeley.edu
Visitors
Alumni
David Voderholzer
Former Visiting graduate student from ETH Zurich
Armin Eghdami
Former Graduate Student
Present position: quantitative researcher at SESCO Enterprises
Ella Banyas
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow
in LBNL
Aurélie Champagne
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Principal Investigator at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and ICMCB
Francesco Ricci
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: BEWARE Research Fellow at UCLouvain and Matgenix
Alex Smith
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University
Eric Taw
Former Graduate Student
Present position:
AI Researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jonah Haber
Former Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position:
Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford
Antonios Alvertis
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position:
Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
Elizabeth Peterson
Former Graduate Student
Present position:
Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab
Beatriz Mourino
Former Visiting Graduate Student
Present position:
PhD student at EPFL
Abby Poteshman
Former Visiting Graduate Student
Present position:
PhD student at UChicago
Ivona Bravić
Former Visiting Graduate Student
Present position:
Strategic Energy Consultant at LBD
Sam Greene
Former Visiting Graduate Student
Present position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Chenchen Song
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position:
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Stephanie Mack
Former Graduate Student
Present position: APS Congressional Science Fellow
Vishal Ravi
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Perkins Coie LLP
Jun-Ho Lee
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Samsung Electronics
Sophie Weber
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow with the Spaldin Group at ETH Zürich.
Samia Hamed
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Senior Process Engineer at Intel
Marina Filip
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Associate Professor of Physics at Oxford University
Ru Chen
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Activision Blizzard
Florian Altvater-Brown
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Solutions Architect at Schrödinger, Inc.
Jung-Hoon Lee
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Senior Researcher at Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Sinéad Griffin
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Staff scientist at LBNL
Zhenfei Liu
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant professor at Wayne State University
Tess Smidt
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Assistant Professor of EECS, MIT
Sivan Refaely-Abramson
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Jon Witte
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Data scientist at Indeed
Se Young Park
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Tonatiuh Rangel Gordillo
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Data scientist at GAC R&D
Sebastian Reyes Lillo
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor at Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
Linn Leppert
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Associate Professor of Physics, University of Twente
Guo Li
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Data scientist at Ultimate Software
Qimin Yan
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Associate Professor of Physics, Northeastern University
Jie Yu
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Marco Bernardi
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Greg Mann
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Distributed Systems Engineer at Mesosphere
Peter Doak
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kyuho Lee
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Senior R&D Engineer at Synopsys, Mountain View, CA
Josh Howe
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, UTEP
Zhiping Wang
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Sahar Sharifzadeh
Former Project Scientist
Present position: Professor of EECS and Materials, Boston University
Kristian Berland
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology
Min Yu
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Berger
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Professor of Chemistry, Western Washington University
Roberta Poloni
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Researcher at SIMAP, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Matériaux, Grenoble
Joydeep Bhattaharjee
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute for Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
Su Ying Quek
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
Shenyuan Yang
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present Position: Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Eric Isaacs
Former Research Assistant
Present Position: Graduate Student, Columbia University
Isaac Tamblyn
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Alexey Zayak
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University
Fabian Pauly
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present Position: Junior Professor, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Pierre Darancet
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present Position: Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Lab
Nicole Adelstein
Former Graduate Student
Present position: Professor of Chemistry, SFSU
Alison Hatt
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Present Position: Public Affairs and Communications, Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Research Assistant Alumni
Yunrui Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2024
Sharon Hsia
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2020-2021
Will DeSoo
Post-bac Research Assistant, 2019-2020
Hao Yu
Undergraduate Student Assistant (SUST), 2019
Nima Leclerc
SULI Program (Cornell), 2018
Aditi Krishnapriyan
SULI Program, 2014
Danny Broberg
SULI Program (Texas), 2012
Amaresh Maiti
SULI Program (Princeton), 2011
Alexander Sebenius
SULI Program (Harvard), 2011
Tyler Harvey
SULI Program (Whitman), 2010
Anubhav Jain
CSGF Program (MIT), 2010
Alex McLeod
Student Assistant, 2008-2010
Graham Chapman
High School Student Intern, 2008-2009
Valla Fatemi
SULI Program (Columbia), 2009 (now at MIT)
Douglas Mason
CSGF Program, 2008-2009
Aaron Sisto
SULI Program (Purdue), 2009 (now at Stanford)
Kenes Bekateyev
Student Assistant, 2008
Josef Ringgenberg
Software Engineer, 2007-2008
Matt Visco
High School Student Intern, 2008
James Harney
Student Assistant, 2007