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2021 Update from ALS Director Steve Kevan

Steve Kevan reflects on the resilience of the ALS community over the past year and the progress we’ve continued to make, from timely COVID research to remote access on a variety of beamlines. As we look to the future, the continued efforts of the whole team will set us up for impactful science during and after the ALS Upgrade Project. Read more »

M. Zahid Hasan Honored with DOE’s Prestigious Lawrence Award

The U.S. Department of Energy honored Hasan for “experiments using advanced spin-angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy which led to seminal discoveries of new phases of matter and new fermionic quasiparticles.” Hasan is a longtime ALS user and a pioneer in the field of topological materials. Read more »

Johanna Nelson Weker, Users’ Executive Committee Chair

This year’s Users’ Executive Committee chair first used synchrotrons as a grad student and loved the experience so much she eventually became a beamline scientist at SSRL. She’s excited to work closely with the user community during the ALS Upgrade and is well versed in post-beamtime food options in Berkeley. Read more »

New UEC Members for 2021

Welcome to the new Users’ Executive Committee members for 2021! Rourav Basak (UCSD), Eric Meshot (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), and Inna Vishik (UC Davis) will be joining the UEC in January. Read more »

Janice Krueger, Senior Business Manager

Coming from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Janice Krueger is no stranger to the Laboratory. She’s excited to get closer to the science by joining the ALS community. Read on to see how she’ll stock her office when we get back on site. Read more »

In Memoriam: Alan Jackson, Retired Accelerator Physicist

Alan Jackson led the accelerator physics group of the ALS through its design, construction, and early years of operation. He took an active role in building synchrotrons around the world, and the accelerator physics community will miss both his expertise and joie de vivre. Read more »

Yang Ha, Chemistry and Materials Postdoc

Synchrotron science is in Yang Ha’s DNA. After getting his PhD from Stanford/SSRL, he joined the ALS in 2018 to study batteries and has branched out to theoretical computation and machine learning. He has also learned useful skills for sharing cutting-edge research with a broader audience. Read more »