Tim Kodalle is a postdoc in the Inorganic Nanostructures facility of the Molecular Foundry as well as at the microdiffraction beamline at the ALS. He got his PhD in physics at Helmholtz Center in Berlin, Germany, where he investigated doping strategies in inorganic thin films for photovoltaics. His current research focuses on in situ characterization […]

John Vinson is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests focus on first-principles electronic structure and spectroscopy calculations, with a focus on near-edge x-ray absorption and emission. He is the main developer of the OCEAN spectroscopy code. 

Benjamin H. Savitzky is principle investigator at h-Bar Instruments, designing and fabricating in-situ liquid helium TEM holders for long duration, high stability measurements near absolute zero.  He previously completed a post-doc at the Foundry’s NCEM where he created py4DSTEM, an open source Python package for analysis of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy datasets.  During his […]

Aiming Yan is currently an assistant professor in the Physics Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in 2013. She then became a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at University of California Berkeley until 2018. Her research focuses on atomic-/nano-scale structural […]

Tara Mishra is a postdoctoral scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with Prof. Gerbrand Ceder. He completed his Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology fellowship. His Ph.D. research focused on the atomistic characterization and computational modeling of III-V semiconductor LEDs on Si substrates. Currently, […]