People

Thomas Jaramillo
Durability Team Lead, SLAC

Dr. Jaramillo is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford, Associate Professor of Photon Science at SLAC, and Director of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis. His research in LiSA focuses on catalysts and integration. His expertise is in catalysis, including materials discovery, mechanistic understanding, and device development. Dr. Jaramillo also serves as the site lead for SLAC.

Frank Abild-Pedersen
Durability, SLAC

Dr. Abild-Pedersen is a Senior Staff Scientist at SLAC and Group Leader for Computational Catalysis. His research in LiSA focuses on catalysis theory and durability. His expertise is theory of thermal and electrocatalytic heterogeneous chemistry for CO₂ and N₂ on nanomaterials.

Michal Bajdich
Durability, SLAC

Dr. Michal Bajdich is a full Staff Scientist at SLAC and co-PI in Computational Catalysis. His research in LiSA focuses on catalyst discovery and durability. His expertise is in computational heterogeneous chemistry of Oxygen, Water and CO₂ on metal-oxide photo-materials.

Shannon Boettcher
Durability, University of Oregon

Dr. Boettcher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon. His research in LiSA focuses on corrosion and water management. His expertise is (electro)catalysis, semiconductor photo-electrochemistry, bipolar membranes, and (photo)electrochemical scanning probe techniques.

Walter Drisdell
Durability, LBNL

Dr. Drisdell is a Staff Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at LBNL. He serves as the User Facilities Lead in LiSA. His research in LiSA focuses on operando photoelectrode and catalyst characterization. His expertise is in situ and operando synchrotron X-ray studies of heterogeneous catalysts and gas adsorption in porous structures.

Martin Head-Gordon
Durability, LBNL

Dr. Head-Gordon is the Kenneth S. Pitzer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and a Senior Faculty Scientist at LBNL. His research in LiSA focuses on catalysis and electronic structure theory. His expertise is modeling core and valence excitations, and ground state reactive pathways associated with corrosion and durability.

Frances Houle
Durability, LBNL

Dr. Houle is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at LBNL and the Deputy Director of LiSA. Her research in LiSA focuses on water management and environments. Her expertise is stochastic multiscale reaction-diffusion modeling of nanoscale photoactive systems and polymer permeation.

Adam Nielander
Durability, SLAC

Dr. Adam Nielander is an Associate Scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division and SUNCAT Center at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His research in LiSA focuses on understanding the processes that define durable operation for (photo)electrochemical systems under ‘on-sun’ and diurnal conditions. His expertise is in electrocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, water electrolysis, and electrochemically-driven N2 reduction.