SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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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. -
Zeeshan Ahmed
Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioI am an observational cosmologist, and an experimental physicist. I build ultra-low-noise detectors using superconducting and quantum sensing techniques, and use them in experiments and instrumentation for cosmology. I currently spend most of my time investigating the inflation paradigm of standard cosmology, using the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Recently, I've become interested in using the weak lensing of the CMB in conjunction with galaxy surveys to study the growth of large-scale structure in the universe.
I received my PhD in particle astrophysics from Caltech in 2012, working on direct detection of WIMP dark matter with the CDMS-II experiment. I then shifted my effort to searching for inflation with the CMB. I was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford through 2015 before being appointed as a Wolfgang Panofsky Fellow at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. In 2017, I won a DOE Office of Science Early Career Award to work on new signal transduction and superconducting multiplexing techniques for next-generation CMB cameras. I am currently appointed as a Lead Scientist at SLAC, where I am CMB department head. I also serve as scientific project manager for the bring up of SLAC's Detector Microfabrication facility for the development of superconducting and quantum sensors and devices. -
Dawood Alnajjar
Software Developer, 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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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.
