Staff Page • Chemistry, Combustion & Materials Science. Biography Alec Talin is a Senior Scientist in the Chemistry, Combustion and Materials Science Department at Sandia National Laboratories and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society...
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Ashfia Huq
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography Ashfia Huq is a manager in the Materials Physics Department, which is part of the Chemistry Combustion and Materials Science Center in the 8300 Division at Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to joining Sandia, Ashfia worked at Apple Inc. as a manager and X-ray/Neutron subject matter expert in...
Catalin Spataru
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Education Ph.D., Physics, UC Berkeley (2004) Research Interests First-principles calculations of the structural, electronic, transport and optical properties of advanced materials. Publications Robinson DA et al, Tunable Intervalence Charge Transfer in Ruthenium Prussian Blue Analog Enables Stable and Efficient Biocompatible Artificial Synapses., Advanced Materials (2022)Thomas, CJ et al.,...
Christian Mailhiot
Staff Page • Materials Science. Biography Prior to joining Sandia in 2016, I held the position of professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University (WSU) during the period 2013 – 2016. At WSU, I was Director of the Center for Institutional Research Computing (CIRC), and founder and Administrative Director...
Doug Medlin
Staff Page • Materials Science. Biography Douglas Medlin is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, USA, where he has served since 1992. Electron microscopy is a central tool for his research, which is broadly concerned with how the atomistic and mesoscale structure of interfaces controls...
Elliot James Fuller
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography Elliot Fuller received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Irvine, where he worked under Prof. Phil Collins studying low-dimensional electronic systems including single walled carbon nanotubes. He accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Materials Physics department at Sandia National Laboratory in 2015 and...
Norm Bartelt
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography My work over the last forty years has focused on improving the understanding of the dynamical processes which are responsible the structure and morphology of solid surfaces. Much of this work has involved constructing statistical mechanical models that allow macroscopic behavior to be traced to atomic events. Most...
Richard Karnesky
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography I manage the Energy Nanomaterials department at Sandia/CA. In my work as an individual contributor, I studied hydrogen isotopes in metals. I am passionate about scientific outreach, having led a lecture-in-a-bar series called “Nerd Nite” and broadcasting a weekly science show on KALX (90.7 FM) called “Spectrum”....
Suhas Kumar
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography I make computers smarter by combining nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Education Ph.D., Stanford University Publications
Wei Pan
Staff Page • Materials Physics. Biography Dr. Wei Pan is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University. He has made numerous seminal contributions to the field of many-particle physics in low dimensional electron systems (in particular novel fractional quantum...