LiSA researchers conduct demos at science fair
LiSA-Caltech researchers conduct demonstrations using artificial photosynthesis kits during a science fair at a Pasadena elementary school.
From Flashlight to Fellowship: A Journey Toward Climate Solutions
Check out this amazing and inspiring spotlight article featuring LiSA researcher Melanie Rodríguez Pabón, who started in the project as a SLAC undergrad in the Jaramillo Group and is now a grad student at Caltech with the Atwater Group!
LiSA 2026 All Hands Meeting
LiSA recently held its annual all hands meeting, bringing researchers from all six institutions together to network and collaborate.
2025 EFRC-Hub-CMS-CCS PI Meeting
LiSA researchers recently presented talks and posters at the 2025 EFRC-Hub-CMS-CCS PI Meeting August 11-12.
The case of the missing copper species
Check out the following SLAC news release highlighting collaborative work by research groups from SLAC and LBNL, which is also featured in the following Journal of the American Chemical Society article!
Driving Chemical Transformations Through the Power of Solar Energy
Check out the following science highlight featured by DOE BES.
X-ray Measurements Reveal an Unexpected Role for Copper in Photocatalysts
Check out the following science highlight featured by DOE BES.
Paving the Way for a Solar Fuels Future
Check out this video highlighting LiSA advances at the Berkeley Lab!
Five Ways LiSA is Advancing Solar Fuels
Check out the following Berkeley Lab news article highlighting LiSA advances!
LiSA 2024 All Hands Meeting
LiSA recently held its annual all hands meeting, bringing researchers from all five institutions together to network and collaborate.
Welcome 2024 Sunrise Network Leadership Team!
We would like to welcome and introduce the new members of the Sunrise Network Leadership Team for 2024: Pooja Basera, Grace Chen, Richard Kang, Katie Luedecke, and Jen Urbine who will be joining existing member Zeb Schichtl.
Artificial photosynthesis: A pathway to solar fuels
Recent publication by LiSA Director Harry Atwater featured in Physics Today!
LiSA Outreach at Caltech
LiSA PI John Gregoire hosted students from Pasadena Community College at Caltech on October 20 and 21, where students learned about electrolysis and artificial photosynthesis, including the solar-driven hydrogen electrolyzer demo developed in LiSA.
LiSA WAVE Fellow Returns to Caltech for Grad School
Audrey Washington, who researched as a WAVE student with LISA PI Prof Scott Cushing (Caltech) in 2022, returns to Caltech to pursue graduate research in chemistry. Congratulations, Audrey!
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wave-alumni-return-to-caltech-for-grad-school
LBNL and SLAC LiSA researchers visit Caltech to assemble photoelectrochemical/photothermal system
LiSA researchers from Caltech, LBNL, and SLAC worked together to assemble a solar-driven tandem photoelectrochemical/photothermal system to convert CO2 into liquid fuels.
LiSA’s Sunrise Network conducts demos at local elementary school’s science fair
LiSA’s Sunrise Network organized a group of Caltech volunteers to conduct demonstrations using LiSA artificial photosynthesis kits during a science fair at a Pasadena elementary school.
Pasadena Community College visits LiSA at Caltech
LiSA’s Sunrise Network organized a group of Caltech volunteers to conduct demonstrations using LiSA artificial photosynthesis kits during a science fair at a Pasadena elementary school.
LiSA All Hands Meeting 2022
LiSA held its first in-person all hands meeting in December 2022, bringing researchers from all five institutions together for the first time since the project started in 2020.