Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews

Interfacial Chemistry at the Advanced Light Source with Ethan Crumlin

In this one-minute audio, Ethan Crumlin, Deputy for Science in the Chemical Sciences Division and a staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source, explains how APXPS, a specialized technique at the Advanced Light Source, identifies a “rainbow” of interfacial chemistry products essential to high-performance batteries and other energy technologies.

Fervo Energy: Pioneering Next-Generation Geothermal Power

Cyclotron Road, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Berkeley Lab, empowers leading science entrepreneurs to advance their technology projects from idea to global impact. Among its successes is Fervo Energy, founded by 2018 cohort members Tim Latimer and Jack Norbeck. Fervo provides 24/7 energy by developing next-generation geothermal power, revolutionizing this type of power generation by making it cost effective and globally scalable. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how Cyclotron Road supports the next generation of science entrepreneurs. Featuring:  Jack Norbeck [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-norbeck/], Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Fervo Energy. Jack leads the company’s geothermal exploration and reservoir engineering strategy. Prior to co-founding Fervo through the Cyclotron Road program, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USGS Earthquake Science Center.

Actinide Chemistry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron with Jennifer Pore

Actinide Chemistry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron

Expert Interview: Sean Peisert on Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity is essential to protecting the data, infrastructure, and technologies behind modern science and society. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Sean Peisert leads efforts to secure everything from supercomputers to the power grid. Using innovative approaches like physics-based monitoring and privacy-preserving data analysis, his team’s work positions cybersecurity not just as a defense, but as a tool for enabling collaboration and progress.  Featuring:  Sean Peisert, senior scientist and lead of cybersecurity and privacy research and development at Berkeley Lab. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis, and the director of Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

Expert Interview: Ashfia Huq on the Macroscale Promise of Nanoscale Science

The Molecular Foundry is a state-of-the-art user facility that provides expertise, methods, and instrumentation for scientists to study materials at the nanoscale. In this episode, Ashfia shares with us the Foundry's mission, its capabilities, and some of the groundbreaking research that has been conducted there. From developing new tools and techniques to pushing the boundaries of what we can see at the atomic level, the Molecular Foundry is at the forefront of nanoscience research. Featuring:  Ashfia Huq is the director of the Molecular Foundry – a DOE-funded nanoscience research facility that provides scientists from around the world access to world-class expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.