Matthew Ryan is a co-founder of an advanced materials startup, Cypris Materials.

Hadas Sternlicht is an Assistant Project Scientist at UC Berkeley and an affiliate at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In her work, she has been focusing on advanced transmission electron microscopy, including technique development, for fundamental and applied studies on interface phenomena, energy materials, polymers and ceramics.

Sridhar Majety is a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California Davis. He is working with Prof. Marina Radulaski on simulation and nano-fabrication of color center integrated photonic devices in silicon carbide, for quantum information processing applications. His current project at Molecular Foundry is focused on nanofabrication of novel […]

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.

Sarah Berlinger is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley studying electrical double layers with surface forces measurements in Professor Joelle Frechette’s lab. In 2021 she received her PhD in Chemical Engineering, also from UC Berkeley, where she was co-advised by Professor Bryan McCloskey and Dr. Adam Weber at LBNL. Her PhD work focused on fuel-cell electrode formation, […]

Steven Yannucci, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, performs research on crystal network based small molecule catalysis as well as proton conductive applications in metal-organic frameworks. He is a materials chemist and has a background in material synthesis and characterization, specializing in porous crystalline materials (MOFs, zeolites). His current research projects include understanding […]

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 […]

Dr. Cheryl Tajon leads chemistry development at Trilo Therapeutics. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in the Biological Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry.  Her past research has focused on the technological development of nanoparticle sensors, as well as targeted inhibitors […]