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Ringleaders & Postdocs

Wanli Yang, RIXS Senior Scientist

Wanli Yang was recently honored as an American Physical Society fellow and is a member of an R&D 100 award-winning team for the second time. He credits his love of physics with a total accident—reading a book he borrowed from a classmate in high school! Read more »

Na Hyun Jo, Materials Sciences Postdoc

Na Hyun Jo has only been at Berkeley Lab for five months, but she’s already helping to organize the Energy Sciences Area Science Hour. Find out more about her research and what inspired her to become a scientist. Read more »

Alpha N’Diaye, Research Scientist

Alpha N’Diaye first came to Berkeley Lab as a postdoc, but his interest in Berkeley was piqued far earlier. Find out what inspired teenage Alpha, and what keeps him here to this day. Read more »

Angelic Lucero, Accelerator Operator Specialist

Working at the ALS started out as a summer job in college for Angelic Lucero—and then she never left. She gives us a glimpse into all the details our operators need to monitor and talks about efforts to help new people at the Lab access resources. Read more »

Clency Easterling, Senior Material Specialist

Even before joining the ALS in 2015, Clency was impressed by the scientific mission of the facility. Although his work takes him all over the ALS, he is interested in one particular type of research—find out what has captured his attention. Read more »

Ken Baptiste, Electrical Engineering Group Leader

Ken Baptiste has been with the ALS since its origin, and he’s been known for his delicious rum cake that entire time. Along the way, he’s learned about the importance of meticulous planning and discovered a few hidden spaces at the Lab. 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 »

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 »

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 »