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Frank Abild-Pedersen
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioDr. Abild-Pedersen is the co-director of SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis. He is leading a research team that focuses on developing an understanding of the factors determining the catalytic properties at the interface between gas/solvent and solid surfaces and to apply these insights to processes and catalysts of importance for energy transformations and for sustainable chemical production. His research takes advantage of computer facilities at SLAC and Stanford to gain the necessary understanding and to link these simulations to experiments where new catalyst synthesis methods are developed, and the catalyst materials are characterized both in terms of performance (activity, selectivity, durability, etc.) and in terms of geometrical and electronic structure. The underlying philosophy of his research is that by having a fundamental understanding of the way surfaces catalyze a chemical reaction we can make a quantum leap in our ability to make predictions for new catalysts and processes. This requires the development of a theory of heterogeneous catalysis, including electrocatalysis, based on computational and experimental results.
Dr Abild-Pedersen has extensive experience with simulations and modeling of chemical reactions. His work began with the derivation of energy correlations in catalysis that have helped speed up screening for active, selective and stable catalysts for energy conversion as a graduate student working with Professor Jens K. Nørskov at the Technical University of Denmark. He moved to SLAC in 2010 as a staff scientist and helped build up SUNCAT and define research directions in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. -
Dawood Alnajjar
Software Dvlpr 3, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioA passionate individual with a masters and PhD in Information Systems Engineering, and with more than 12 years of international professional experience in FPGA prototyping, embedded system development, reverse engineering, digital circuit design, verification, and layout, low-level software, library and driver development, optimization, high performance computing, research, and demo development.
Currently, landed a job in the Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center as a Senior Embedded Systems Software Engineer, working with embedded system development and FPGA prototyping. -
Roberto Alonso-Mori
Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordLead Scientist and Group Lead of the Biochemistry and Condensed Phase Chemistry Group within the Chemical Sciences Department at LCLS (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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Angela Dawn Anderson
Unit/Program Comms Mgr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordHead of Press & Publications, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Project Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioRimvydas Baltaduonis, Ph.D., - Rim - works as a Project Scientist with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s GISMo team at Stanford University. He is also an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Gettysburg College and co-directs Gettysburg Lab for Experimental Economics (GLEE). While being a longtime affiliate of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE), Dr. Baltaduonis also worked as a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) during 2019-2020 academic year and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2015 to 2017. Baltaduonis' broad areas of research interest are industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, energy security, experimental and behavioral economics. His current research focuses on the design and behavior of electric power markets. He also conducts workshops on laboratory economics experiments designed to inform energy policy. At Gettysburg College, he taught Industrial Organization, Energy & Security, Energy Economics and Experimental Economics. The National Science Foundation, the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) and the Australian Research Council have supported his research. Prior to assuming his faculty position at Gettysburg College, Baltaduonis was an IFREE Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University and later at the Economics Science Institute at Chapman University. He earned his PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Connecticut and a BSc in Economics from Vilnius University in Lithuania.
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Simon R Bare
Distinguished Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioAppointments
2016-presentDistinguished Scientist, SSRL, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
2010–2016Research Fellow, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL
2003–2010 Senior Research & Development Associate, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL
1996–2003Research & Development Associate, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL
1986–1996Staff Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI
1984–1986Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials & Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley
1982–1984Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Professional Preparation
University of Liverpool, U.K.ChemistryB.Sc. (Honors) 1979
University of Liverpool, U.K.Physical ChemistryPh.D.1982
Workshops Organized:
Conference Chair:“Operando-IV: Recent developments and future perspectives in spectroscopy of working catalysts,” April 2012, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Co-Chair:“Advanced x-ray techniques for catalyst characterization”, ACS National Meeting, April 2017. -
Sandra Beauvarlet
Visiting Physicist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioPostdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar specialized in ultrafast laser-matter interaction.
My PhD research focused on investigating molecular chirality through the interaction of electrons with laser pulses at the femtosecond and attosecond timescale via the PhotoElectron Circular and ELliptical Dichroism (PECD and PEELD). This finality demanded several laser source and metrology developments such as : (i) Performed frequency conversion up to the 4th harmonic of an Amplitude System Tangerine Yb-fiber short pulse laser at 1030 nm and used its Optical Parametric Amplifier to generate short pulse continuously tunable source. (ii) Engineered various polarization schemes ranging from the simplicity of 1 color pulse circularly polarized to the complexity of 2 non-colinear sets of two-color orthogonally polarized pulses with an active sub-cycle delay stabilization. (iii) Contributed to low-loss capillary-based visible pulse compression at the Yb-fiber laser's second harmonic (515nm) and built the FROG instrument to measure sub-15 fs pulses. (iv) Build and tuned UV attosecond table-top sources using the process of High Harmonic Generation (HHG). (v) Developed 2D and 3D electron spectroscopy instruments (VMI, COLTRIMS) and algorithmS notably using Fourier Transform, Abel inversion, Radon transform...
My postdoctoral research focus extended to the physics of X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) at LCLS and broadened to the use of these X-ray attosecond pulses to drive ultrafast dynamics in atoms and molecules. My current work and interest focus on electron/ion spectroscopy (MBES), absorption spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction probing Charge Migration, Ring Opening, Isomerization, Conical Intersections, Raman Scattering ... but also enhance the collected data quality using variability to our advantage through Covariance approaches and ghost imaging based Machine Learning procedure to improve attosecond spectroscopy.
