Adam Legacy is with High RI Optics, and is a user of the Nanofabrication Facility.

Preetika Rastogi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Material Sciences Division and Imaging Facility of The Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab. She received her M.S. (Research) and Ph.D. from IIT Madras, India in 2023 and was also a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University during her Ph.D. She has a chemical engineering background, and her research interests include colloids at […]

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 […]

Melanie West is with Magic Leap, and is a user of the Nanofabrication Facility.

Dr. Evgenii Vasilev is a Metallurgical Engineer at Limelight Steel leading R&D on laser-driven zero-carbon iron production. Holding dual Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Physics of Condensed Matter, Evgenii has a rich history of bridging fundamental research with industrial application. His entrepreneurial path began with founding a startup focused on protective coatings for tools […]

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 […]