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Adam Legacy

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

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Preetika Rastogi

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 […]

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Madelyn Payne

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 […]

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Jinghua Guo

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 […]

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Fabrice Roncoroni

Fabrice Roncoroni is a graduate student collaborating between ETH Zurich and Berkeley Lab in the Theory of Nanostructured Materials facility. After an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Fabrice has dedicated his Master’s studies to enhancing his expertise in using computational methods to explore the nature of materials. He has a passion for writing Python […]

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Melanie West

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

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Evgenii Vasilev

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 […]

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Tim Kodalle

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 […]

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Matthew Seraydarian

Matthew Seraydarian is a PhD candidate in the chemistry department at New York University (NYU). He works under Dr. Kent Kirshenbaum developing synthetic methods for preparing sequence-defined peptoid polymers. Matthew worked at the Molecular Foundry from July to November 2024 and returned in July 2025 to spend the 2025-2026 academic year continuing his work in the Biological Nanostructures facility. […]

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