The Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association is an organization run by and for about 1000 postdocs and early career scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We organize many activities to strengthen our ties to the Lab, to each other and to the (Berkeley) Bay Area. Our goal is to facilitate social interactions, scientific exchanges, seminars and general orientation.
 
Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association

Board

The Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association (BLPA) is a volunteer-run organization that aims at providing support to postdocs, grad-students and early-career scientists and organizing activities. BLPA was founded in January 2016, with Horst Simon, LBL deputy director, serving as executive sponsor.

The board of BLPA, formed in April 2016, is currently made of:
Co-chair 1: Valentine Trotter (Bioscience Division)
Co-chair 2: Louise Lassalle (Bioscience Division)
Co-chair 3: Roel Van Beeumen (Computational Research Division)
Co-chair 4: Greg Su (Advanced Light Source)

Secretary: Jana Voriskova (Climate & Ecosystem Sciences)
Treasurer: Hang Deng (Earth & Environmental Sciences)
Historian: Nils Zimmermann (Computational Research Division)
Public relation officer: Sinead Griffin (Molecular Foundry)
Internal relations officers: Valentine Trotter (Bioscience Division)

Special roles are:

Outreach: Judit Oliver-Meseguer (CSD)
Education: –
Sports & activities: Ruimin Qiao
Postdoc orientation: Roel Van Beeumen (CRD)
Relations with the UC Berkeley: Arnoud E.
Relations with the postdoc union: Louise Lassalle
Relation with the National Postdoc Association: Robert Streubel
Relations with Cyclotron Road/Early Career scientists: Etosha Cave
Relations with former postdocs : Aaron Hammack (former LBNL postdoc, COO and founder of EpiBiome)
Relations with offsite postdocs in Biosciences : Seema Jamil
Relations with offsite postdocs in JGI : Joelle Schlapfer & Estelle Couradeau
Alumni Network : Roel Van Beeumen

The other officers are:
– Protonu Basu (CRD)
– Kenneth Higa
– Bjorn Enders
– Karol Krizka
– Brandon Krull (CRD)
– Shan Dou (EESA)
– Mengsu Hu (EESA)

Board members of the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association (Arnoud E., Louisse Lassalle, Judit Oliver-Messeguer, Jana Voriskova and Ruimin Qiao) – September 2017
Board members of the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association (Tetiana Shalapska, Jana Voriskova, Karol Krizka, Robert Streubel, Judit Oliver-Messeguer, Valentine Trotter, Hang Deng and Roel Van Beeumen)

 

From left to right: Lydia Terborg, Jing, Cameron Coates, Robert Streubel, Greg Su, (sitting) Antoine Wojdyla, Hang Deng, Sinead Griffin, Valentine Totter and Tetiana Shalapska. Not on the picture: Aaron Hammack, Kenneth Higa, Georgios Michelogiannakis, Julianne Mueller, Nils Zimmerman, and Jochen Thaeder
From left to right: Lydia Terborg, Jing Xu, Cameron Coates, Robert Streubel, Greg Su, (sitting) Antoine Wojdyla, Hang Deng, Sinead Griffin, Valentine Totter and Tetiana Shalapska.
Not on the picture: Aaron Hammack, Kenneth Higa, Georgios Michelogiannakis, Juliane Mueller, Nils Zimmermann, and Jochen Thaeder — March 2016

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