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Diffraction & Imaging Program

The ALS Diffraction & Imaging Program comprises three diffraction beamlines (small-molecule crystallography, diffraction under non-ambient conditions, and microdiffraction), one microCT imaging beamline, and one x-ray microprobe beamline. They share a focus on in situ experiments, and all have intense data handling and processing requirements. Four of the five beamlines are situated on superbend sources, providing maximum energies in the hard x-ray region, while the other reaches tender x-rays at 2.1 keV (the phosphorus K-edge). The hallmark of these instruments is their wide applicability across a broad range of areas, including earth and environmental, materials, chemical, and biological sciences, and beyond. The tools offered by the Diffraction & Imaging Program are highly complementary to the ALS’s soft and tender x-ray programs.

Beamlines

Personnel

ALS Staff

Dula Parkinson

Staff Scientist, Program Lead

Elizabeth Clark

Research Scientist

Martin Kunz

Senior Scientist

Nobumichi Tamura

Senior Scientist

Simon Teat

Staff Scientist

Affiliate Staff

Kat Armstrong

COMPRES

Bora Kalkan

COMPRES

Nick Settineri

ALS/UC Berkeley

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Alex Ditter
    ALS/CSD Postdoc (2019- ), Chemical Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab

  • Collin Foster
    DOE SCGSR Doctoral Fellow (2021- ), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Guanhua (Tibbers) Hao
    Machine Learning Exchange Project Postdoctoral Fellow (2021- ), ALS Computing Group
    ALS Doctoral Fellow (2019-2020), University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  • Suzanne Mulligan
    DOE SCGSR Doctoral Fellow (2021- ), University of Nevada

Program Alumni

  • Fabienne Amann
    Student Intern (2018), ENSTA, France

  • Christine Beavers, Diamond Light Source
    ALS Postdoc/Project Scientist/Scientist (2009-2018), COMPRES

  • Brian Chandler
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley

  • Kyle Cruff
    Student Assistant, UC Berkeley

  • Andrew Doran
    Scientific Engineering Associate, ALS

  • David Gardner
    DOE SCGSR Doctoral Fellow (2019-2020), UC Berkeley

  • Kamran Ghiassi, Edwards Air Force Base
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, UC Davis

  • Nico Giordano, DESY
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

  • Elise Grenot
    Student Intern (2019), ENSTA, France

  • Jasmine Hundal
    Student Intern (2019)

  • Laura McCormick, University of Southampton
    Project Scientist (2016-2018)

  • Kesong Miao, Harbin Institute, China
    Ph.D. Student (2019-2020), Harbin Institute, China

  • Joseph Nichols
    ALS  Postdoc (2019-2021), University of Utah

  • Earl O’Bannon III, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz

  • Joshua Peterson
    ALS Postbaccalaureate

  • Kevin Ploner
    Marshall Plan Fellow, University of Innsbruck

  • Shambavi Pratap
    ALS Doctoral Fellow (2019-2020), Technical University of Munich

  • Alvaro Ramirez-Hong
    ALS Postbaccalaureate

  • Thomas Richard
    Summer Intern, University of Bourgogne

  • Manon Riedrich
    Summer Intern, University of Bourgogne

  • Sam Schickler, UC San Diego
    Summer Intern (2016-2019)

  • Hao Shen, Xi’an Jiaotong University
    ALS Doctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

  • Andrew Shum
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, Tufts University

  • Nils Skoglund
    ALS Postdoc, Umea University

  • Camelia Stan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Project Scientist (2016-2019)

  • Cara Vennari
    ALS Doctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz

  • Nathan Verrier
    Summer Intern, University of Bourgogne

  • Jiejuan Yan, Stanford University
    ALS Postdoc (2017-2018)

  • Jinyuan Yan, Center for X-Ray Optics
    ALS Scientist (2004-2020), COMPRES

  • Binbin Yue, Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research, China
    ALS Postdoc (2015-2018)

  • Xiaoling Zhou, Harbin Institute of Technology
    ALS Doctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019), University of Utah