Professor Persson celebrates National Nanotechnology Day! Professor Kristin Persson breaks down Nanotechnology in video celebrating National Nanotechnology Day. Read more and watch video here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building University…

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MSE connection to Nobel Prize in Chemistry Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Doudna for winning the Nobel Prize for CRISPR-cas9 technology developed in her lab.  In her news conference, Professor Jennifer Doudna credits our own Jillian Banfield for sparking her interest in the problem that led to CRISPR. Read full news conference here. Contact Us Department offices are…

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MSE Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position is now OPEN! Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1760 Phone: (510) 642-3801 Fax: (510) 643-5792 Privacy| Nondiscrimination| Accessibility

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Professor Al Balushi named one of five new faculty fellows by Berkeley Engineering Faculty fellows (clockwise from top left) Zakaria Al-Balushi, Sophia Shao, Derfogail Delcassian, Alexis Kaminski and Alp Sipahigil. Professor Al Balushi named one of five new faculty fellows by Berkeley Engineering. Learn more about the new faculty members here. Contact Us Department offices…

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Professor Peidong Yang receives Global Energy Prize Professor Peidong Yang received the 2020 Global Energy Prize in the Non-Conventional Energy category for the invention of the nanoparticle-based solar cell and artificial photosynthesis. Congratulations Professor Yang! Please read full article here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast…

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Where did you study? I studied physics in my undergraduate in Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and also got a MS degree in physics from Peking University, China. I came to the U.S. and obtained my PhD degree in the Applied Science and Technology Graduate Program in UC Berkeley. After a postdoc research at Harvard…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Program ranks #2 Best in 2021 U.S News Rankings! The 2021 US News and World Reports rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has been ranked number 2 in the nation! The complete rankings and link to more details can be found here. Contact Us Department offices are located…

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MSE graduate student, Luis Rangel DaCosta is among the 5 percent of applicants chosen for the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship this year! Luis Rangel DaCosta, a doctoral candidate in Professor Mary Scott’s research group, has received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support his Materials Science research! Congratulations Luis!…

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MSE Seminar Series: Professor Monica Allen, 9/3/20 Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1760 Phone: (510) 642-3801 Fax: (510) 643-5792 Privacy| Nondiscrimination| Accessibility

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Welcome to the Fall 2020 Semester! Welcome new and returning students! We look forward to having you on campus when it is safe to do so. In the meantime, we wish you the best of luck in your studies! MSE Staff and Faculty are here for you. GO BEARS! Contact Us Department offices are located…

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