Group Leader
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Andrew M. minor
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
and
Facility Director, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
p.(510) 495-2749
f. (510) 486-5888
Email: aminor@berkeley.edu
Staff
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Frances Allen, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
p.(510) 486-4618 f. (510) 486-5888
Email: fiallen@lbl.gov
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Julian AmADO Vigil, PH.D.
Joint affiliation: Minor group and Long group (UCB Chemistry)
Email: jvigil@berkeley.edu
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Yael Tsarfati, Ph.D.
Joint affiliation in Minor group and Alberto Salleo group (Stanford)
Email: yaeltsa@stanford.edu
Graduate Students
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Dana Byrne
Ph.D. Student, UCB Chemistry
p.(510) 486-4618
Email: dana_byrne@berkeley.edu
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Sally Karstens
Ph.D. Student, UCB Chemistry
(joint student with Prof. Jeff Long)
p.(510) 486-4618
Email: sally_karstens@berkeley.edu
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Madelyn I. Payne
Ph.D. Student, UCB MSE
(joint student with Prof. Mark Asta)
p.(510) 486-4618
Email: mpayne@berkeley.edu
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
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Mingwei Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at UC Davis
mwwzhang@ucdavis.edu
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Thomas Harold Greathouse
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Hadas Sternlicht, Ph.D.
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Jennifer Donohue
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Min Chen
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Steven Zeltmann
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Chaoyi Zhu, Ph.D.
EAG Group
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RUOPENG ZHANG, Ph.D.
Apple Inc.
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Xiaoqing li
EAG Group
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Daniel Durham
Argonne National Laboratory
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Alexander Mueller, Ph.D.
Kearny
Munich, Germany
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Yan Chong Ph.D.
Kyoto University
Email: chong.yan.6w@kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Xiaotao Liu, Ph.D.
Wuhan University, China
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Christoph Gammer Ph.D.
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Leoben, Austria
Email: Christoph.Gammer@oeaw.ac.at
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Eita Tochigi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Yu Deng “Danny”, Ph.D.
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Center of Materials analysis & Department of Physics
Nanjing University, China
Email: njudengyu@gmail.com
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Bin Xiang, Ph.D
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China
Email: binxiang102@gmail.com
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Daniel Kiener, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Erich Schmid Institute for Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Email: daniel.kiener@oeaw.ac.at
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Suhan Kim, Ph.D.
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Email: suhan.kim@gmail.com
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Vinay Shriram, PH.D.
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Zhiwei Shan, Ph.D.
Professor, Xian Jiaotong University, China
Director, Hysitron Applied Research CenterHysitron Inc.
Email: zhiweishan@gmail.com
Contact Us
UC Berkeley
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley
374 Hearst Memorial Mining Building,
Berkeley, CA 94720
LBL
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 72, room 215
Berkeley, CA 94720