Madelyn Payne is a graduate student in Materials Science at UC Berkeley, but she spends most of her time in building 72 at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at LBL. Her research focuses on understanding the deformation mechanisms in high entropy alloys via electron microscopy. She conducts both ex-situ and in-situ nanomechanical tests and performs TEM […]

Jinghua Guo is Senior Scientist in the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry atUniversity of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.S. from Zhejiang University, M.S. fromShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, and Ph.D. from Uppsala University, continuedas Postdoc and Assistant Professor in […]

Beihang Yu is a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley Lab, working with Dr. Ricardo Ruiz and Dr. Ron Zuckermann. She did her PhD in Chemical Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Rachel Segalman at UC Santa Barbara, with her dissertation on polymer chain conformation in block copolymer self-assembly. Her current research projects include developing sequence-defined polymer […]

Waqas Khalid is a Principal Investigator (PI) scientist at The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UC Berkeley (QB3-Berkeley) and taught Physics at the physics department at UC Berkeley. Waqas is also an affiliate scientist at NASA Ames, Lawrence Berkeley Labs and the CEO of a startup Jadoo Technologies Inc.

Andy Mannix is an assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on tailoring materials at the atomic scale to advance electronic, optoelectronic, and quantum technologies. His lab specializes in the growth, fabrication, and characterization of two-dimensional (2D) materials and van der Waals heterostructures. Using advanced robotic fabrication, hyperspectral […]

Harika Dechiraju is a postdoctoral researcher in the Nanofabrication Facility at Berkeley Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her research focused on bioelectronic platforms for modulating cell membrane potentials. Her current research centers on the design and fabrication of integrated biosensing platforms that combine nanofluidics […]