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 […]

Dr. Sumanjeet Kaur, a Research Scientist and Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, performs research on thermal energy storage. She is a material scientist and has background in material synthesis and characterization, as well as in various thermal metrologies. Her current research projects include development of dynamically tunable thermal energy storage, thermal switches and […]

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 […]

Dr. Katherine Inzani is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. She completed a Masters in Materials Science at the University of Oxford, followed by a Ph.D. at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and postdoctoral research in the Theory Facility at the Molecular Foundry and Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley […]

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, […]

Emma is a PhD candidate in the mechanical engineering department at Columbia University. She has worked on multiple user projects at the Molecular Foundry, including a 10-month onsite collaboration effort that spanned the imaging and manipulation, inorganic, and nano-bio facilities. At Prof. Schuck’s lab at Columbia, she works on the optical characterization of lanthanide-based upconverting nanoparticles. She […]