Berkeley Lab

2019 UEC Election

Voting opened on December 6th for 5 new members of the Molecular Foundry UEC (3 post docs, 2 industry reps). Please view the candidate details below and vote using the embedded ballot form at the bottom of the page. Voting will close on December 18th and results will be announced in late December.

Postdoc Candidates

Gozde Barim, LBNL

  • Representing Facilities: Inorganic Nanostructures, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis
  • Personal Statement: Gozde Barim is a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Lab. She is an active user at the Inorganic Nanostructures as well as Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis facilities of the Molecular Foundry since June 2019. As a Berkeley Science Fellow, she has been offering advice to a startup which is also a Foundry user to solve specific scientific challenges through Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Program. She is currently serving as the Lab-Industry Networking Connection (LINC) Committee Leader of the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association.
  • Website: https://eta.lbl.gov/people/gozde-barim

Lauren Hughes, NCEM

  • Representing Facilities: National Center for Electron Microscopy
  • Personal Statement: At the Molecular Foundry, I investigate the microstructure of lithium-based battery materials using a variety of electron microscopy techniques, such as 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy. I am highly interested in serving on the Molecular Foundry User Executive Committee as this committee allows me to use the knowledge I gained as a long-term affiliate user and, now, a post-doctoral researcher at the Foundry to aid in decisions that impact the broader user community.

Bhushan N. Kharbikar, University of California San Francisco

  • Representing Facilities: Nanofabrication, Biological Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: I will be starting soon in the foundry as a part of ongoing project from UCSF.
  • Website: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/desai

Yi-Hsien Lu, Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab

  • Representing Facilities: Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures, Nanofabrication, Theory of Nanostructured Materials, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis
  • Personal Statement: Yi-Hsien Lu is a postdoc at Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and has actively worked in the Molecular Foundry through several different user proposals for more than two years. His research works include 5 facilities in the Foundry and also several beamlines at ALS. If selected as a member of UEC, I would like to advocate a better interaction among users, staff scientists, and the management.

Milan Palei, University of Notre Dame

  • Representing Facilities: Nanofabrication, The National Center for Electron Microscopy
  • Personal Statement: My work in foundry was mainly defined in nanofabrication. I was involved in fabrication of hyperbolic Metamaterial of TiN and Al2O3 by atomic layer deposition and characterizing them with spectroscopic ellipsometry. The Metamaterials are further used for hyperlensing.

Evan Sheridan, Molecular Foundry/King’s College London

  • Representing Facilities: Theory of Nanostructured Materials
  • Personal Statement: I am a visiting Fulbright Scholar and Foundry user in the Theory of Nanostructured Materials, under the supervision of Dr. Sinead Griffin. Having had such a positive impression as a user myself, I would like to contribute to the experience of future users. Promoting engagement with industrial and academic users within and, particularly, outside of the United States would be a main focus of mine while serving on the UEC.
  • Website: https://evan1415.github.io/

Camille Stavrakas, Molecular Foundry

  • Representing Facilities: Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: I have been a user for a couple of years, I spent 3 months on site to set up and run an optical experiment and I am now joining the Foundry as a postdoc in the Imaging division.

Jing Tang, Stanford University

  • Representing Facilities: National Center for Electron Microscopy
  • Personal Statement: I am been a user at the Foundry for the past two years. My work is focused at NCEM and ALS and in the The National Center for Electron Microscopy facilities to characterize nanomaterials and atomic precise materials. The NCEM project is a great occasion to work closely with other groups at Stanford, UC Berkeley and LBNL. So I want to bring this collaborative spirit to the user community.

Yujun Xie, LBNL

  • Representing Facilities: National Center for Electron Microscopy
  • Personal Statement: Yujun (Terry) Xie is a postdoctoral fellow at the NCEM and MSD at LBNL. Dr. Xie received a B.S in Materials Science and Engineering from the Drexel University and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. His work focuses on structure-properties characterization of amorphous materials via aberration corrected resolution electron microscopy and has been users in multiple facilities centers including Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Her postdoctoral research involves the study of organic materials and the development of cryogenic electron microscopy. Yujun hopes to bring viewpoints from his unique experiences to the Foundry community and facilitate the communication between different departments.
  • Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yujun-xie-322b3527/

Jihan Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Representing Facilities: National Center for Electron Microscopy
  • Personal Statement: I have been a long term on-site user using TEAM microscopes at NCEM since 2015, during which I have performed the first 4D atomic electron tomography experiment on capturing early stage nucleation. I would be extremely happy and honored to serve all the foundry users as a member in UEC, not only participating in the user related activities, but also bridging users and staff with constant communication.
  • Website: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/research/imaging/people.html

 

Industry Candidates

Roger Basu, Coreshell Technologies, Inc.

  • Representing Facilities: Inorganic Nanostructures, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis
  • Personal Statement: I have been an industrial user at the Molecular Foundry with two separate companies over the past 6 years, and am so grateful for the support and access that the Foundry has provided me throughout my time here. I have supported the Foundry by maintaining and training users on the 4th floor battery testers, and will also support the 6th floor testers in the near future. I hope to further increase my commitment to the Foundry by serving on the UEC.

Yi-Ting Chen, Sylvatex

  • Representing Facilities: Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures, Inorganic Nanostructures, Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis
  • Personal Statement: As an industrial user, Sylvatex scientists have been active at the Molecular Foundry since 2014 and I, Yi-Ting, specifically since 2018. We have interacted with many of the Foundry’s staff including the Organic, Inorganic, and Imaging Facilities. Using the capabilities in these operations, Sylvatex has gained significant technical insights and obtained industry support for the Sylvatex green chemistry platform, which has been a significant driver for advancing our commercialization efforts. We have also expanded our collaborations with CalCharge and received awards with NSF and USDA to expedite our technology to market. Thus, we would like to participate in the User Executive Committee for operation and future events. Given my engagement at the facility and as the Sylvatex technical lead, I can provide industry insights and effectively highlight the Foundry’s capabilities in its outreach with research communities and potential start-up partners.

Joseph Geddes, Photia Incorporated

  • Representing Facilities: Nanofabrication, Inorganic Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: Our company Photia is developing a holographic lithography user tool at the Foundry for rapidly making 2D and 3D nanostructures. I am interested in serving on the UEC to help the Foundry help industry and academia do outstanding research that can then be translated into useful things.
  • Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbgeddes3/

Waqas Khalid, UC Berkeley/Jadoo Technologies Inc

  • Representing Facilities: Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures, Nanofabrication, Inorganic Nanostructures, Biological Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: I have been engaged with the Foundry for almost 10 years. I understand the foundry dynamics and would bring a lot of insight and experience to UEC.
  • Website: https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/instructional/waqas-khalid

Arkadeep Kumar, Applied Materials (formerly Berkeley Lab)

  • Representing Facilities: Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures, Inorganic Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: I have been a Foundry user for Inorganic Facility and Characterization facility on 1st floor. Prior to my postdoc, I was PhD student and user at Georgia Tech IEN and MCF. I would like to share ideas to make our Foundry a better place for both users and staff. I am actively engaged with many staff and scientists across multiple floors (beyond my research done at particular facilities), and I participated in all Foundry user meeting during my time. I look forward to serve on the UEC.

Cheryl Tajon, Trilo Therapeutics

  • Representing Facilities: Biological Nanostructures
  • Personal Statement: I have been at the Foundry’s Biological Nanostructures Facility since 2014, as a postdoctoral fellow for four years and an industry user with Trilo Therapeutics for over one year. I am interested in serving on the UEC because I want to support the quality of all Users’ experience at the Foundry, by advocating for what is needed on a scientific level as well as fostering an inclusive work environment.