System Engineer and Data Scientist, Cerebras Systems After completing his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Columbia University, Diego Scarabelli joined Rigetti Computing as a Quantum Engineer leading the Qubit Microfabrication Team. There, he contributed to designing and testing iterative architectural improvements, and developed control software and data analysis code base. …
Scientist, Visolis Israel Figueroa obtained his PhD in Microbiology from UC Berkeley. After a brief stint as a postdoc, he decided to move into the exciting and rapidly expanding biorenewables industry. He currently works as a Scientist at Visolis, a biotech startup based in Hayward, CA, where he uses synthetic …
Associate, EE & CS, Exponent Christopher Benson is an experimental physicist with a background in mechanical engineering whose expertise covers high voltage systems, high-power devices, electric motors, detector calibration, extreme ultraviolet optics, wavelength shifting thin films, and detailed Monte Carlo simulations. His experience at Exponent includes failure analysis, testing, and …
On Saturday March 16, 2019, we went to Santa Cruz for a full day excursion. In the morning, we visited Startup Sandbox, a new biotechnology incubator. The director, Dr. Alireza Chavosh, gave us a tour of the lab as well as an overview of the program and services offer by …
A group of 22 Berkeley lab postdocs went on a hiking trip to Briones Regional park on Sunday March 17, 2019, which is just a 30 minute drive from Berkely. On a very warm and pleasant day, we were treated to some amazing views of Berkeley Hills and Mount Diablo. …
The Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurship Program is having their next event on March 21st from 6.00-8.30 pm at SkyDeck. The topic is Challenges to “academic” entrepreneurship: the perspectives of an entrepreneurial professor and a former postdoc. Please RSVP.
On Friday 08/03/2019, Laurie Stephey, a postdoc in NERSC, told us about her home state – Florida. Florida: the Sunshine State, the lightning strike capital of the US, and the shark bite capital of the world.
Welcome to our March new postdocs at Berkeley Lab! Download presentation.
On February 22, Fadji Maina, a postdoc in Energy Geosciences Division, told us about her beautiful home country in the talk “Niger, where the savannah meets the desert”.
Surprisingly close to Berkeley lies the Sibley Volcanic Regional Park, where a group of 21 postdocs hiked along the rugged mountain tops, where lava used to be flowing, still visible by the cooled down rocks, partially eroded and partially intact. We even saw a large group of newts and their …
