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Donghui Lu
Senior Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
BioDonghui Lu is a senior scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the deputy director of the Materials Science Division at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource leading the Soft X-ray Group. His research interests lie in studying quantum materials, such as high temperature superconductors, using high resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. He is also an expert in developing modern synchrotron instrumentations, including cutting-edge soft x-ray beamlines and sophisticated endstations with versatile sample environments and materials synthesis capabilities.
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Darya Marchany-Rivera
Staff Engineer 2, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordBeamline Scientist- SMB MC
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Phil Marshall
Senior Scientist, Fundamental Physics Directorate
BioPhil is currently Deputy Director of Operations at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and looking forward to all the science from its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). He helped form the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration at its inaugural meeting in 2012, and held leadership positions in it for 7 years until he moved to his current position at Rubin. (This included being collaboration Spokesperson 2017-2019, during which time he led the implementation of the collaboration's operations plan.) His long-standing scientific interest is strong gravitational lenses, whose Einstein rings and time delays can be used to probe the accelerated expansion history of the Universe, and which can help us probe the nature of Dark Matter via the sub-galactic structure than perturbs the lensing effect. Analyzing tens of thousands of these systems from the LSST will take new approaches to lens detection and modeling: Phil and his Strong Lensing Group at KIPAC are investigating machine learning with deep neural networks as a way to carry out principled, multi-level scientific inference at LSST scale. Phil did his PhD on Bayesian Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies at the University of Cambridge, during which time he first got interested in the process of measuring astronomical objects, including things like Dark Matter halos which we may not be able to observe directly. He first moved to Stanford in 2003 as one of KIPAC's first wave of postdocs, and returned as Kavli Fellow in 2009 after three years as TABASGO Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Phil then spent three years in Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, before moving back to join the SLAC staff on a permanent basis in 2013.
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Timothy Maxwell
Lead Scientist, Accelerator
Current Role at StanfordDepartment Head
NC Linac & FEL Area Physics
Linac & FEL Division
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Linda McCulloch
Unit/Program Comms Mgr 2, Strategic Communications & External Affairs
Current Role at StanfordHead of Creative Content & Identity at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Apurva Mehta
Senior Scientist, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
Current Role at StanfordHead of Material Sciences Department
Linac Coherent Light Source
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Derek Mendez
Staff Scientist - Biomedicine, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordComputational staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), in the Macromolecular Crystallography group (Structural and Molecular Biology division).
Main activities revolve around a 3 year BRaVE-funded project to build a new X-ray resource for the acceleration of medicines development (XMeD). Active in-silico areas of research are in the characterization of crystallization outcomes, virtual and experimental screening of ligands, in-silico methods for lead molecule optimization, and extremely sensitive absorption profile characterization using machine learning techniques. A major computational goal is to determine the most valuable tools (and develop new ones) for future XMeD users.
Beyond XMeD, we are focusing on using GPUs and machine learning models to accelerate processing and characterization of user diffraction data that is collected at SSRL beamlines 12-1, 12-2, 14-1, and 9-2. In addition, we are aiming to make available to users new methods that process X-ray diffraction data at the pixel-level in order to extract more information to better resolve structural changes in proteins arising from e.g., binding events and light/chemical driven dynamics.
We are also partnering with NERSC to build a framework for our beamline users to offload computationally intensive jobs to the Perlmutter GPU cluster. -
Despina Milathianaki
Director, Technology Transfer, DD Science & Technology Office
BioDespina is the Director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Strategic Partnerships in the organization of the SLAC Deputy Director for Science and Technology. She and her team help accelerate the translation of cutting-edge research into transformative technologies and solutions through the development and execution of tech transfer programs and strategic partnerships with industry, academia, and government sponsors. Before her current role, Despina served as senior director for Department of Energy partnerships in the quantum computing industry establishing important R&D programs between the private sector and the national labs. Prior roles in the private sector included management consulting for Accenture UK and engineering for a Silicon valley startup. Despina first joined SLAC in 2010 as a staff scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source investigating materials science at extreme conditions. She later transitioned to strategic planning where she served as the director of strategic planning and investment for SLAC. Despina holds a Bachelor's in Physics from Imperial College London and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She completed her PhD in High Energy Density Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, conducting research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Michael P. Minitti
Senior Scientist, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
Current Role at StanfordI am a Senior Staff Scientist specializing in time-resolved gas-phase chemistry and structural dynamics studies using ultrabright, ultrafast X-rays and electrons. I have served the Laboratory in a multitude of Leadership roles including as the Director of the Megaelectronvolt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (MeV-UED) user facility, LCLS Soft X-Ray Department, and the LCLS Laser Science and Research Department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. My current focus is to continue the development of gas-phase photochemistry science areas at LCLS and to ensure their success for the User community in the era of high-brightness and high-repetition rate FELs such as LCLS-II-HE and LCLS-X.
