Established in 2010, the Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Program (BPEP) is overseen by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research in collaboration with the Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Affairs (VSPA) Program and SkyDeck, the premier startup accelerator at UC Berkeley. BPEP’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship within the UC Berkeley postdoctoral, visiting scholar/student …
Apply to the Insight Fellows Program by February 10: https://apply.insightdatascience.com The Insight Fellows Programs are tuition-free fellowships for graduating students looking to transition to thriving careers as data scientists, engineers, and other cutting-edge professionals. Insight Fellows: – Pay no tuition; the program is fully funded by top companies – Receive …
Fadji Maina and Mariah Parker Words Eliza lives by: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” – Einstein Her journey to LBNLEliza grew up in northeast China in a city called Harbin. In 2011, graduated with her MS from Syracuse University. Then in 2018, she graduated …
A group of 21 postdocs and guests went to Mt. Diablo State park on Saturday, Dec. 14th, 2019 to hike along Donner Creek. They hiked a total of 7 miles to the waterfalls and back, enjoying perfect weather and lunch on a scenic outcrop overlooking one of the falls.
Fadji Maina and Mariah Parker Sebastian’s journey to Berkeley Lab Sebastian was born and raised in a town close to Dresden in the Eastern part of Germany. He earned his bachelor in geoinformatics and geophysics from the oldest mining university in the world, the University of Freiberg (Germany). He then …
A group of 21 postdocs went to the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve on Saturday, Nov. 16th, 2019 to embark on the Windy Hill Loop. They hiked along the Spring Ridge Trail – Hamms Gulch Trail – Lost Trail – Anniversary Trail – Spring Ridge Trail for a total of …
Our monthly orientation for new LBNL postdocs took place on Tuesday, November 5. The orientation slides are available here
Mariah Parker, and Fadji Maina Diana’s Background Diana and her two siblings grew up in Lisbon, Portugal with her mother and father, who were a meteorologist and a physics professor, respectively. She got her bachelors, masters, and doctorate from University of Lisbon. She fell in love with plasma physics early …
Our November Meet&Greet was full of spooky networking fueled by tons of Halloween candy and ice-cream. We had special guests this month, a group of postdocs from UC Berkeley!
On Wednesday October 23rd, Dr. Jeffrey Welser, a Vice President in IBM Research, presented a seminar: The Future of Computing: Bits + Neurons + Qbits. The seminar covered new challenges and opportunities for innovation at every level from materials to devices to systems of quantum computing and AI. More than …
