Kristin Persson – Materials Science & Engineering

The US Department of Energy Office of Science features Prof. Kristin Persson: Kristin Persson on Data and Machine Learning

Scientists recognized by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award are pursuing answers to science’s biggest questions. Kristin Persson is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Materials Project at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/big-questions-kristin-persson-data-and-machine-learning?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&nrg_redirect=473387

Luke Langford Receives Didier de Fontaine Theory Award

Picture caption: Luke Langford (right) is presented with the Didier de Fontaine Theory Award by Prof. Kristin Persson (center). Luke is advised by Prof. Ahmad Omar (left). The Didier de Fontaine Theory Award Symposium was held on March 6, 2025, in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. This award honors the legacy of Professor Didier de…

Prof. Kristin Persson of MSE is elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)!

Prof. Persson is recognized for pioneering data-driven materials design through the creation and stewardship of open materials databases and associated data-mining algorithms. She serves as director of the Materials Project — a multi-institution, multinational effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials and provide the data and associated analysis algorithms to researchers free of charge. …

Kristin Persson, UC Berkeley MSE Professor, Inducted into Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its 2024 Class for Chemistry! The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded 1739, was created…

Google DeepMind Incorporates Almost 400,000 Additional Compounds into Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project – Reported by Lauren Biron

As reported in Nature today, the research groups of Professor Ceder and Persson collaborated on the creation of an Autonomous Laboratory for the Synthesis of New Inorganic Materials. Using integration with the Materials Project (materialsproject.org), text-mined synthesis knowledge from over 5Million research papers, and data from Google Deepmind, the A-lab demonstrated the autonomous synthesis of…

Highly Cited Researchers 2023 Recipients

Congratulations to Professors Ceder, Persson, Ramesh, Ritchie and Wu! According to Clarivate’s website, “Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research. Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science™…

Professors Kristin Persson and Phillip Messersmith Named 2023 MRS Fellows

MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Phillip Messersmith were selected as members of the class of 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellows. MRS, one of the premier professional societies in materials science, bestows the title of MRS Fellow only on those MRS members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide. The…

Professor Kristin Persson has been elected into the 2022 class of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) is one of the most distinguished honors within the scientific community. The AAAS is one of the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Congratulations to Professor Persson!

Professor Kristin Persson wins the Cyril Stanley Smith Award

MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson has been chosen as recipient of the Cyril Stanley Smith Award. This award, which is given by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the science and/or technology of materials structure. Prof. Persson will receive this honor at TMS-AIME Annual Awards Ceremony at…

Professors Persson and Ceder featured on “How We Survive” podcast

MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Gerd Ceder were featured on an episode of Marketplace radio’s climate technology podcast “How We Survive.” During the episode, they discuss the future of batteries, new materials, and self-driving labs (among other things). Head here to find the episode and listen for yourself to two world leaders in this…