Who We Are

Jeffrey B. Neaton

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

Riyaz Mohammed

Administrator - LBNL

rmohammed[at]lbl.gov

510.684.6875

4238, Building 50, LBNL

Maria Feng

Administrator - UC Berkeley

mariafeng[at]berkeley.edu

510.642.9345

529 Birge Hall, UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Fellows

Aurélie Champagne

achampagne[at]lbl.gov

Francesco Ricci

fricci[at]lbl.gov

Francisca Sagredo

fsagredo[at]lbl.gov

Yusuf Shaidu

yshaidu[at]berkeley.edu

Graduate Students

Ella Banyas

Physics

ebanyas[at]berkeley.edu

Armin Eghdami

Physics

armin.eghdami[at]berkeley.edu

Stephen Gant

Physics

stephen_gant[at]berkeley.edu

Sijia Ke

Materials Science Engineering

sijia_ke[at]berkeley.edu

Pedro Guimaraes Martins

Chemical Engineering

pedrogm[at]berkeley.edu

Tyler Reichanadter

EECS

jtreichanadter[at]berkeley.edu

Alex Smith

Physics

alex_smith[at]berkeley.edu

Zui Tao

Chemistry

taozui[at]berkeley.edu

Visitors

Linn Leppert

Associate Professor, University of Twente

l.leppert[at]utwente.nl

Alumni

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 ZĂĽrich.


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

Liu group

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

Tonatiuh's page

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

Linn's page

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

Qimin's page

Jie Yu

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Michele Kotiuga

Former Graduate Student

Present position: Postdoc at EPFL

Michele's page

Marco Bernardi

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Present position: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

Bernardi group

Fabien Bruneval

Former Visiting Scientist from CEA Saclay

Fabien's page

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

Peter's page

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

Sharifzadeh group

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

Berger group

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

Tamblyn group

Alexey Zayak

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Present position: Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University

Zayak group

Fabian Pauly

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Present Position: Junior Professor, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Pauly group

David Strubbe

Former Graduate Student

Present position: Professor of Physics, UC-Merced

Website

Pierre Darancet

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Present Position: Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Lab

Darancet group

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

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