Prof. Emeritus at McGill University
Prof. Emeritus at the Physics Department of McGill University. He has been involved with XPCS since the beginning, and was part of the team to design and build Sector 8 at APS.
Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science
and Engineering
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor, Physics
Robert L. Leheny’s primary research interests are in experimental soft condensed matter physics with particular focus on disordered and out-of-equilibrium systems such as glass-forming liquids, liquid crystal-colloid composites, and gels.
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Chair in Engineering
Research Scientist, Energy Geoscience Division
Mike Whittaker is a research scientist in the Energy Geoscience Division (EGD) in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) and an affiliate in the department of Earth and Planetary Science (EPS) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). He received BS/MS degrees from the University of Utah in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 with advisor Derk Joester. Mike worked as a postdoc in the nanogeoscience group in EGD from 2017-2020 with Benjamin Gilbert and with Jill Banfield at UCB. He is the cofounder and director of LiRRIC, the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center at LBL.
Associate Director, GAP 1 Co-Investigator, Integrating Framework Co-Lead
Research Lead
Hilmar Koerner is a research lead in the Composites Branch, Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio. He leads a research team solving current challenges in polymer matrix composites, materials and processes, with focus on physics-based understanding of composite processing and materials discovery in high temperature thermosetting polymers.
Sr. Scientist at Berkeley Lab
Gessner is a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab and the leader of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences (AMOS) Program of the Chemical Sciences Division. His research focuses on time-resolved XUV and X-ray based experimental studies of fundamental dynamics in molecules, clusters, and interfacial systems. Using optical lasers, synchrotrons, and X-ray free-electron-lasers, electronic and nuclear dynamics are probed on timescales ranging from the (sub-)femtosecond regime of intramolecular charge migration to microsecond relaxation times of heterogeneous interfaces after photoexcitation.