Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:20:16 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2206573 en-us © 2026 Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews no 33a77eee-c40b-5809-9f1d-83fe725062a7 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory episodic false A series of expert interviews that showcase the work of Berkeley Lab researchers, connecting audiences with the people behind the science. Listen to our scientists discuss how their groundbreaking research enables science solutions for the world.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ydus2b599b8pcj45y4r9gw6z62sw?.jpg Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews Interfacial Chemistry at the Advanced Light Source with Ethan Crumlin Interfacial Chemistry at the Advanced Light Source with Ethan Crumlin In this one-minute audio, Ethan Crumlin, Deputy for Science in the Chemical Sciences Division and a staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source, explains how APXPS, a specialized technique at the Advanced Light Source, identifies a “rainbow” of interfacial chemistry products essential to high-performance batteries and other energy technologies.

]]> In this one-minute audio, Ethan Crumlin, Deputy for Science in the Chemical Sciences Division and a staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source, explains how APXPS, a specialized technique at the Advanced Light Source, identifies a “rainbow” of interfacial chemistry products essential to high-performance batteries and other energy technologies.

]]> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Buzzsprout-18653229 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800 84 full false Expert interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology Expert interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17848386 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0800 606 full false Fervo Energy: Pioneering Next-Generation Geothermal Power Fervo Energy: Pioneering Next-Generation Geothermal Power Cyclotron Road, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Berkeley Lab, empowers leading science entrepreneurs to advance their technology projects from idea to global impact. Among its successes is Fervo Energy, founded by 2018 cohort members Tim Latimer and Jack Norbeck. Fervo provides 24/7 energy by developing next-generation geothermal power, revolutionizing this type of power generation by making it cost effective and globally scalable. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how Cyclotron Road supports the next generation of science entrepreneurs.

Featuring: 

Jack Norbeck, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Fervo Energy. Jack leads the company’s geothermal exploration and reservoir engineering strategy. Prior to co-founding Fervo through the Cyclotron Road program, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USGS Earthquake Science Center.

]]> Cyclotron Road, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Berkeley Lab, empowers leading science entrepreneurs to advance their technology projects from idea to global impact. Among its successes is Fervo Energy, founded by 2018 cohort members Tim Latimer and Jack Norbeck. Fervo provides 24/7 energy by developing next-generation geothermal power, revolutionizing this type of power generation by making it cost effective and globally scalable. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how Cyclotron Road supports the next generation of science entrepreneurs.

Featuring: 

Jack Norbeck, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Fervo Energy. Jack leads the company’s geothermal exploration and reservoir engineering strategy. Prior to co-founding Fervo through the Cyclotron Road program, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USGS Earthquake Science Center.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17600580 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0800 487 full false Actinide Chemistry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron with Jennifer Pore Actinide Chemistry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron with Jennifer Pore Actinide Chemistry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron

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]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17558650 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0700 125 full false Expert Interview: Sean Peisert on Cybersecurity Research Expert Interview: Sean Peisert on Cybersecurity Research Cybersecurity is essential to protecting the data, infrastructure, and technologies behind modern science and society. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Sean Peisert leads efforts to secure everything from supercomputers to the power grid. Using innovative approaches like physics-based monitoring and privacy-preserving data analysis, his team’s work positions cybersecurity not just as a defense, but as a tool for enabling collaboration and progress. 

Featuring: 

Sean Peisert, senior scientist and lead of cybersecurity and privacy research and development at Berkeley Lab. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis, and the director of Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

]]> Cybersecurity is essential to protecting the data, infrastructure, and technologies behind modern science and society. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Sean Peisert leads efforts to secure everything from supercomputers to the power grid. Using innovative approaches like physics-based monitoring and privacy-preserving data analysis, his team’s work positions cybersecurity not just as a defense, but as a tool for enabling collaboration and progress. 

Featuring: 

Sean Peisert, senior scientist and lead of cybersecurity and privacy research and development at Berkeley Lab. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis, and the director of Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17582156 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:00:00 -0700 589 full false Expert Interview: Ashfia Huq on the Macroscale Promise of Nanoscale Science Expert Interview: Ashfia Huq on the Macroscale Promise of Nanoscale Science The Molecular Foundry is a state-of-the-art user facility that provides expertise, methods, and instrumentation for scientists to study materials at the nanoscale. In this episode, Ashfia shares with us the Foundry's mission, its capabilities, and some of the groundbreaking research that has been conducted there. From developing new tools and techniques to pushing the boundaries of what we can see at the atomic level, the Molecular Foundry is at the forefront of nanoscience research.

Featuring: 

Ashfia Huq is the director of the Molecular Foundry – a DOE-funded nanoscience research facility that provides scientists from around the world access to world-class expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.


]]> The Molecular Foundry is a state-of-the-art user facility that provides expertise, methods, and instrumentation for scientists to study materials at the nanoscale. In this episode, Ashfia shares with us the Foundry's mission, its capabilities, and some of the groundbreaking research that has been conducted there. From developing new tools and techniques to pushing the boundaries of what we can see at the atomic level, the Molecular Foundry is at the forefront of nanoscience research.

Featuring: 

Ashfia Huq is the director of the Molecular Foundry – a DOE-funded nanoscience research facility that provides scientists from around the world access to world-class expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.


]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17321384 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:00 -0700 483 full false Expert Interview: Nigel Mouncey Expert Interview: Nigel Mouncey In this 5-minute audio interview, listen as Nigel Mouncey, Director of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), explains how this user facility supports the world’s scientists.

Featuring: 

Nigel Mouncey, the Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In addition to leading JGI, Mouncey also heads the Secondary Metabolites Program that is developing large-scale innovative approaches to study regulation and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. 

]]> In this 5-minute audio interview, listen as Nigel Mouncey, Director of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), explains how this user facility supports the world’s scientists.

Featuring: 

Nigel Mouncey, the Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In addition to leading JGI, Mouncey also heads the Secondary Metabolites Program that is developing large-scale innovative approaches to study regulation and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. 

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17102670 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0700 335 full false Expert Interview: Cameron Geddes on Fusion Energy Expert Interview: Cameron Geddes on Fusion Energy Fusion energy has the potential to transform energy supplies for the world. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researchers are developing the technologies and techniques needed to make fusion energy a reality. In this audio interview, hear how their interdisciplinary work is paving the way toward limitless energy for the future.

Featuring: Cameron Geddes, director of the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Berkeley Lab. He leads the division in inventing, developing, and deploying particle accelerators, lasers, and photon sources to extend the frontiers of science, as well as systems for fusion and related areas of applied physics. His research focuses on the study of laser-driven plasma waves to create next-generation compact particle accelerators for high-energy physics and photon sources, advanced laser technologies, and high energy density science. 


]]> Fusion energy has the potential to transform energy supplies for the world. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researchers are developing the technologies and techniques needed to make fusion energy a reality. In this audio interview, hear how their interdisciplinary work is paving the way toward limitless energy for the future.

Featuring: Cameron Geddes, director of the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Berkeley Lab. He leads the division in inventing, developing, and deploying particle accelerators, lasers, and photon sources to extend the frontiers of science, as well as systems for fusion and related areas of applied physics. His research focuses on the study of laser-driven plasma waves to create next-generation compact particle accelerators for high-energy physics and photon sources, advanced laser technologies, and high energy density science. 


]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17306773 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:00:00 -0700 545 full false Expert Interview: Eva Schill on the Promise of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Expert Interview: Eva Schill on the Promise of Enhanced Geothermal Systems Geothermal energy taps into the Earth’s natural heat—but what happens when that heat isn’t easily accessible? Berkeley Lab scientists are working to solve that problem through enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS. In this episode, we talk with Eva Schill, program lead for geothermal systems in the Energy Geosciences Division, about the promise of EGS, what makes it different from conventional geothermal energy, and why Berkeley Lab is uniquely positioned to drive this technology forward.

Featuring: Eva Schill is the Geothermal Systems Program Lead in the Energy Geosciences Division at Berkeley Lab. With a background in geology and geophysics, Schill oversees a portfolio of projects advancing both conventional and enhanced geothermal technologies. 

]]> Geothermal energy taps into the Earth’s natural heat—but what happens when that heat isn’t easily accessible? Berkeley Lab scientists are working to solve that problem through enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS. In this episode, we talk with Eva Schill, program lead for geothermal systems in the Energy Geosciences Division, about the promise of EGS, what makes it different from conventional geothermal energy, and why Berkeley Lab is uniquely positioned to drive this technology forward.

Featuring: Eva Schill is the Geothermal Systems Program Lead in the Energy Geosciences Division at Berkeley Lab. With a background in geology and geophysics, Schill oversees a portfolio of projects advancing both conventional and enhanced geothermal technologies. 

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17306933 Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 -0700 598 full false Expert Interview: Harshi Mukundan on Biosecurity Research Expert Interview: Harshi Mukundan on Biosecurity Research In this audio interview, listen as Berkeley Lab’s Harshi Mukundan, a microbiologist in the Biosciences Area and Chemical and Biological Technologies Lead in the Lab’s Office of National and Homeland Security, discusses the importance of biosecurity research.

]]> In this audio interview, listen as Berkeley Lab’s Harshi Mukundan, a microbiologist in the Biosciences Area and Chemical and Biological Technologies Lead in the Lab’s Office of National and Homeland Security, discusses the importance of biosecurity research.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17196847 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0700 581 full false Mario Cromaz Mario Cromaz Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17075778 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0700 32 full false Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine on Chip Manufacturing Advances at the ALS Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine on Chip Manufacturing Advances at the ALS After decades of research and development, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has recently reached the point of high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, marking a significant technological breakthrough. Berkeley Lab’s Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO) has played an instrumental role in this achievement, working directly with chipmakers to develop tools to overcome longstanding challenges in EUV resist performance and mask defects. As EUV lithography advances to its next generation, CXRO – in close collaboration with the Advanced Light Source and the Center for High Precision Patterning Science (CHiPPS) – continues to address ongoing obstacles in optics, masks, and materials, enabling the creation of even smaller semiconductor features for future electronics.

Featuring: Bruno La Fontaine, director of the Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO). He and his team develop unique research tools and perform scientific experiments that help the semiconductor industry make faster, smaller, and more efficient microchips. 

]]> After decades of research and development, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has recently reached the point of high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, marking a significant technological breakthrough. Berkeley Lab’s Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO) has played an instrumental role in this achievement, working directly with chipmakers to develop tools to overcome longstanding challenges in EUV resist performance and mask defects. As EUV lithography advances to its next generation, CXRO – in close collaboration with the Advanced Light Source and the Center for High Precision Patterning Science (CHiPPS) – continues to address ongoing obstacles in optics, masks, and materials, enabling the creation of even smaller semiconductor features for future electronics.

Featuring: Bruno La Fontaine, director of the Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO). He and his team develop unique research tools and perform scientific experiments that help the semiconductor industry make faster, smaller, and more efficient microchips. 

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17199460 Thu, 22 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 410 full false Expert Interview: Marc Allaire on Breakthrough Medical Discoveries at the ALS Expert Interview: Marc Allaire on Breakthrough Medical Discoveries at the ALS The Advanced Light Source is home to many techniques that can reveal atomic details of molecules and materials. The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) leads a subset of these capabilities that are focused on elucidating the structure of biological molecules. For 25 years, pharmaceutical companies from across the nation have been collaborating with BCSB experts to study proteins related to disease. By unlocking the structures, our scientists have helped unlock treatments for a variety of conditions, including cancers and HIV. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the impact of our structural biology resources. 

Featuring: 

Marc Allaire, a biophysicist staff scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division and head of the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). His team uses light generated by the ALS to perform a range of structural characterization techniques. Allaire personally leads investigations using X-ray crystallography, and previously also managed small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 

Allaire frequently collaborates with the BCSB’s large pharmaceutical user base to help enable drug discovery. In addition to the sheer quantity and diversity of structures being solved, he enjoys the challenge of working on new ways to improve crystallography technology. Notably, he helped incorporate robotics that automate sample processing at the ALS, leading to faster results and more convenient access for users.




]]> The Advanced Light Source is home to many techniques that can reveal atomic details of molecules and materials. The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) leads a subset of these capabilities that are focused on elucidating the structure of biological molecules. For 25 years, pharmaceutical companies from across the nation have been collaborating with BCSB experts to study proteins related to disease. By unlocking the structures, our scientists have helped unlock treatments for a variety of conditions, including cancers and HIV. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the impact of our structural biology resources. 

Featuring: 

Marc Allaire, a biophysicist staff scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division and head of the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). His team uses light generated by the ALS to perform a range of structural characterization techniques. Allaire personally leads investigations using X-ray crystallography, and previously also managed small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 

Allaire frequently collaborates with the BCSB’s large pharmaceutical user base to help enable drug discovery. In addition to the sheer quantity and diversity of structures being solved, he enjoys the challenge of working on new ways to improve crystallography technology. Notably, he helped incorporate robotics that automate sample processing at the ALS, leading to faster results and more convenient access for users.




]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17039406 Thu, 22 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 666 full false Expert Interview: Ethan Crumlin on Advancing Energy Materials at the ALS Expert Interview: Ethan Crumlin on Advancing Energy Materials at the ALS Batteries power everything from the phone in your pocket to grid-scale energy storage, and their technology has advanced dramatically over the years. Developing reliable and efficient energy materials is crucial to this progress. For the past 30 years, the Advanced Light Source has played a key role in revolutionizing battery and energy materials research, enabling breakthroughs that drive innovation.

In this episode, we talk with Ethan Crumlin, a staff scientist and program lead specializing in battery chemistry and characterization. His work supports the development of reliable and efficient energy materials. We explore the history of the Advanced Light Source in advancing characterization techniques and discuss the groundbreaking capabilities that will drive research after the ALS upgrade.

Featuring: 

Ethan Crumlin, the Division Deputy for Science in the chemical sciences division and a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Crumlin leads a program that studies energy storage and conversion materials such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, catalysts, and batteries using advanced techniques. 


]]> Batteries power everything from the phone in your pocket to grid-scale energy storage, and their technology has advanced dramatically over the years. Developing reliable and efficient energy materials is crucial to this progress. For the past 30 years, the Advanced Light Source has played a key role in revolutionizing battery and energy materials research, enabling breakthroughs that drive innovation.

In this episode, we talk with Ethan Crumlin, a staff scientist and program lead specializing in battery chemistry and characterization. His work supports the development of reliable and efficient energy materials. We explore the history of the Advanced Light Source in advancing characterization techniques and discuss the groundbreaking capabilities that will drive research after the ALS upgrade.

Featuring: 

Ethan Crumlin, the Division Deputy for Science in the chemical sciences division and a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Crumlin leads a program that studies energy storage and conversion materials such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, catalysts, and batteries using advanced techniques. 


]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17044885 Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:00 -0700 548 full false Expert Interview: Dimitri Argyriou on Seeing Things More Clearly, in the Right Light Expert Interview: Dimitri Argyriou on Seeing Things More Clearly, in the Right Light Scientists are using light at X-ray wavelengths to reveal the secret worlds of atoms and electrons. The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The ALS mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community.

Featuring: 

Dimitri Argyriou serves as interim director of the Advanced Light Source Upgrade project, responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of this transformative upgrade to endow the facility with revolutionary X-ray capabilities that will advance scientific innovation across materials science, chemistry, biology, and environmental science.

]]> Scientists are using light at X-ray wavelengths to reveal the secret worlds of atoms and electrons. The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The ALS mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community.

Featuring: 

Dimitri Argyriou serves as interim director of the Advanced Light Source Upgrade project, responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of this transformative upgrade to endow the facility with revolutionary X-ray capabilities that will advance scientific innovation across materials science, chemistry, biology, and environmental science.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-16985930 Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:00 -0700 534 full false Expert Interview: Sudip Dosanjh Expert Interview: Sudip Dosanjh The integration of high-performance computing and AI is accelerating scientific discovery, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is at the forefront of innovation. With over 11,000 users from various scientific fields, NERSC has expanded its mission to include data analysis and is now receiving more data than it processes. Aiming to maintain U.S. leadership in high-performance computing, NERSC emphasizes team science and industry collaboration. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how NERSC supports scientific innovation, and learn more by visiting our news center.

Featuring: 

Sudip Dosanjh, Director of NERSC. NERSC’s mission is to accelerate scientific discovery at the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science through high-performance computing and extreme data analysis.

]]> The integration of high-performance computing and AI is accelerating scientific discovery, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is at the forefront of innovation. With over 11,000 users from various scientific fields, NERSC has expanded its mission to include data analysis and is now receiving more data than it processes. Aiming to maintain U.S. leadership in high-performance computing, NERSC emphasizes team science and industry collaboration. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how NERSC supports scientific innovation, and learn more by visiting our news center.

Featuring: 

Sudip Dosanjh, Director of NERSC. NERSC’s mission is to accelerate scientific discovery at the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science through high-performance computing and extreme data analysis.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17153843 Thu, 15 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 486 full false Expert Interview: Deepti Tanjore on Boosting American Biotech Expert Interview: Deepti Tanjore on Boosting American Biotech The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) is helping catalyze a new era of manufacturing: using biology to produce innovative materials, fuels, foods, and more. The ABPDU provides the technical resources, equipment, and expertise needed to take bench-scale discoveries all the way to market readiness. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the ABPDU’s collaborations across industry and academia. 

Featuring: 

Deepti Tanjore, director of the ABPDU and head of the Process Engineering & Analytics department. Her research investigates how bioprocess conditions affect the health and efficiency of microbes inside bioreactors. Tanjore’s team is developing modeling methods to predict ideal conditions for different species, as well as integrated sensing tools for real-time monitoring of cultures, allowing researchers to adapt bioreactor parameters as needed.

]]> The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) is helping catalyze a new era of manufacturing: using biology to produce innovative materials, fuels, foods, and more. The ABPDU provides the technical resources, equipment, and expertise needed to take bench-scale discoveries all the way to market readiness. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the ABPDU’s collaborations across industry and academia. 

Featuring: 

Deepti Tanjore, director of the ABPDU and head of the Process Engineering & Analytics department. Her research investigates how bioprocess conditions affect the health and efficiency of microbes inside bioreactors. Tanjore’s team is developing modeling methods to predict ideal conditions for different species, as well as integrated sensing tools for real-time monitoring of cultures, allowing researchers to adapt bioreactor parameters as needed.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17038997 Wed, 07 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 545 full false Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine Bruno La Fontaine, Director of the Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO), speaks on how the CXRO supports the microchip industry.  

]]> Bruno La Fontaine, Director of the Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO), speaks on how the CXRO supports the microchip industry.  

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17075194 Tue, 06 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 200 full false Expert Interview: Blake Simmons on Beer and Biomanufacturing Expert Interview: Blake Simmons on Beer and Biomanufacturing Biomanufacturing sounds complicated, but in a simple explanation, it is using biology and biological systems to perform certain operations in the manufacturing process. The goal is to produce goods and products that can be sold in the marketplace. Listen in this episode as Blake Simmons, Division Director of Biological Systems and Engineering in the Biosciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, describes how biomanufacturing supports the U.S. goal of increased domestic production. 

Featuring: 

Blake Simmons, is the Division Director of Biological Systems and Engineering in the Biosciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

In addition, Simmons serves as the Chief Scientific and Technology Officer and Vice President of the Deconstruction Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. For the past 15 years, Simmons has been part of the Senior Management team at Sandia National Laboratories, most recently serving as the Senior Manager of Advanced Biomanufacturing, Biomass Program Manager. His expertise includes biofuels, renewable chemicals, biomanufacturing, abiotic-biotic interfaces, biomass pretreatment, enzyme engineering, biofuel cells, templated nanomaterials, microfluidics, desalination, and biomineralization.


]]> Biomanufacturing sounds complicated, but in a simple explanation, it is using biology and biological systems to perform certain operations in the manufacturing process. The goal is to produce goods and products that can be sold in the marketplace. Listen in this episode as Blake Simmons, Division Director of Biological Systems and Engineering in the Biosciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, describes how biomanufacturing supports the U.S. goal of increased domestic production. 

Featuring: 

Blake Simmons, is the Division Director of Biological Systems and Engineering in the Biosciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

In addition, Simmons serves as the Chief Scientific and Technology Officer and Vice President of the Deconstruction Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. For the past 15 years, Simmons has been part of the Senior Management team at Sandia National Laboratories, most recently serving as the Senior Manager of Advanced Biomanufacturing, Biomass Program Manager. His expertise includes biofuels, renewable chemicals, biomanufacturing, abiotic-biotic interfaces, biomass pretreatment, enzyme engineering, biofuel cells, templated nanomaterials, microfluidics, desalination, and biomineralization.


]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17059459 Thu, 01 May 2025 08:00:00 -0700 574 full false Peidong Yang Peidong Yang Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-17016953 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0700 22 full false Chin Guok: Leveraging AI for ESnet7 Chin Guok: Leveraging AI for ESnet7 Listen to ESnet’s Chief Technology Officer Chin Guok discuss AI advancement opportunities for ESnet7 during a 2024 AI workshop.

]]> Listen to ESnet’s Chief Technology Officer Chin Guok discuss AI advancement opportunities for ESnet7 during a 2024 AI workshop.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-16912159 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0700 45 full false Expert Interview: Inder Monga on Big Science, AI, and Quantum with ESnet Expert Interview: Inder Monga on Big Science, AI, and Quantum with ESnet Scientific breakthroughs rely on seamless data movement, much like a circulatory system delivering vital knowledge. Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s sole high-performance networking user facility, keeps this system running and enables breakthroughs that shape our world. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how ESnet supports the nation’s scientists.


Featuring:
Inder Monga, the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of ESnet. In addition to managing ESnet, Inder works to advance the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributes to ongoing research projects tackling quantum networking and the convergence of the application layer and the network. He is the principal investigator for the Quantum Application Network Testbed for Novel Entanglement Technology (QUANT-NET) project and the co-PI of the National Science Foundation’s FABRIC testbed project.

]]> Scientific breakthroughs rely on seamless data movement, much like a circulatory system delivering vital knowledge. Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s sole high-performance networking user facility, keeps this system running and enables breakthroughs that shape our world. Listen to this podcast where we talk about how ESnet supports the nation’s scientists.


Featuring:
Inder Monga, the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of ESnet. In addition to managing ESnet, Inder works to advance the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributes to ongoing research projects tackling quantum networking and the convergence of the application layer and the network. He is the principal investigator for the Quantum Application Network Testbed for Novel Entanglement Technology (QUANT-NET) project and the co-PI of the National Science Foundation’s FABRIC testbed project.

]]> Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-16912121 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0700 475 full false Maurice Garcia-Sciveres Maurice Garcia-Sciveres Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-16603766 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0800 37 full false Ernest Lawrence’s Nobel Prize Speech Ernest Lawrence’s Nobel Prize Speech Berkeley Lab Buzzsprout-16514161 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0800 702 full false