Posts Tagged ‘uc berkeley’
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Visits Lab
Gerd Ceder (left), Faculty Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Division (MSD), shows Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies, Singapore, the capabilities of A-Lab, An automated, accelerated Lab controlled by AI software, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in Berkeley, California, 05/15/2023. by Elements News You can read the…
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Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future By Lauren Biron April 17, 2023
Berkeley Lab researcher Yan Zeng looks over the starting point at A-Lab. The new lab combines automation and artificial intelligence to speed up materials science discovery. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) MSE’s Prof. Ceder’s automated lab, A-Lab, is featured at LBNL news: Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the…
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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…
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Q&A with Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE) On joining the MEng program after working in industry and his interests in sustainable energy
Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE), is currently pursuing an MEng in Materials Science & Engineering. He is a student leader for the Sustainable Energy Affinity group. Prior to UC Berkeley, Johnny earned a BS in Chemistry from UC Davis and worked professionally in battery engineering for 4 years at Quantumscape. Here, he shares insight into his…
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Op-ed: Reimagining higher education — Academia versus industry By Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE)
Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash What if your learnings from school perfectly aligned with the skills you needed in your career? Have you ever taken classes outside your major to get experience and exposure for your next career transition? As it stands, academia and industry are not well integrated with each other. That is, not all…
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Twisted crystals: a new material that could improve opto-electronics
(Photo by Elena Zhukova) “Twisted crystals: a new material that could improve opto-electronics: Jie Yao, a 2022 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, has made it his mission to not only understand the crystals underlying today’s technology, but develop new types of crystal structures that interact with light and electricity in different and unusual ways.” -The Berkeleyan
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Congratulations Professor Haimei Zheng for being elected Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), Class of 2023
The designation “MSA Fellow” is intended to recognize senior distinguished members of the Society who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the field of microscopy and microanalysis through a combination of scientific achievement and service to the scientific community and the Society itself. Election to MSA Fellow is limited to a small fraction…
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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!
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Ramamoorthy Ramesh elected to the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that UC Berkeley engineer and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the 2022 class of NAI Fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. Ramesh, professor of materials science and engineering and of physics at Berkeley, and currently vice president for research at Rice University, is known…
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Student Spotlight: Ruijuan Xu
Why did you choose to study MSE? During high school, I was interested in almost all the science courses, but this also makes it difficult for me to decide which college major I should focus on. One of the reasons to choose MSE at the beginning was simply because it’s an interdisciplinary field that incorporates…
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