Deb Agarwal
Deb Agarwal is the Data Science and Technology Department Head in the Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, Inria International Chair, and a Berkeley Institute for Data Science Senior Fellow.
Arian Aghajanzadeh
Arian Aghajanzadeh is a Chemical Engineer who develops methodologies and software tools to help California farmers in estimating the demand response potential of their irrigation pumps. His research is aimed at making U.S. farms more economically valuable and energy efficient.
Musahid Ahmed
Musahid Ahmed is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Energy Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab and manage the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Advanced Light Source. His research interests are in seeking a molecular level understanding of complicated phenomena.
Gary Andersen
Gary Andersen is a Senior Scientist in the Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab where his research focus is in the area of microbial ecology and includes the examination of phylogenetic diversity in natural environments. The Andersen Group uses molecular approaches to study the dynamics of microbial community structure under changing environmental conditions.
Jens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer is a Senior Scientist and currently serves as the Director for the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab. He is an internationally-recognized expert in subsurface energy applications and environmental impact assessment.
Hannah Breunig
Hanna Breunig is a Senior Scientific Engineering Associate in the Sustainable Energy Systems Group. She specializes in spatially- and temporally-resolved environmental, human health, and economic impact assessment of emerging energy and wastewater treatment technologies.
Shashi Buluswar
Shashi is the CEO of the Institute for Transformative Technologies and the founder of the LIGTT Institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is the lead author of the recently released groundbreaking study to identify the “The 50 most critical scientific & technological breakthroughs required for sustainable global development”.
Romy Chakraborty
Romy Chakraborty is Department Head, Ecology, and Staff Scientist and in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division of the Earth & Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab. One of her key research interests is the application of microbes towards bioremediation of key environmental pollutants.
Yuting Chen
Yuting Chen is a Senior Scientific Engineering Associate in the Energy Efficiency Standards Group. Her research focuses on economic and environmental cost-benefit analysis to assess the impact of energy-efficiency standards, such as the national water consumption modeling for the EPA WaterSense Program.
William Drew (Bill) Collins
William 'Bill' Collins is an internationally-recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. He serves as the Director for the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division (CESD) in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab.
Katie Coughlin
Katie Coughlin has a background in theoretical physics and has experience analyzing energy, water, and climate change issues for federal and State entities. She is the Project leader for the Energy Efficiency Standards Group.
Larry Dale
Larry Dale is an energy and water economist in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab. He has over 25 years of experience analyzing energy, water, and climate change, and led the California Climate Change Center’s effort to estimate economic impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in the State.
Camilla Dunham
Camilla Dunham is an Environmental Engineer in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab.
Dipankar Dwivedi
Dipankar Dwivedi is a Research Scientist in the Geochemistry Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on reactive transport modeling, soil carbon dynamics, redox processes, and organo-mineral interactions.
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. His research interests are in magnetism on the nano- and mesoscale, and magnetic x-ray microscopy and spectroscopy.
Peter Fiske
Peter Fiske is Director of the Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute (WERRI), a new position that underscores Berkeley Lab’s commitment to developing solutions for the challenges associated with the interdependence of water and energy systems.
Heidi Fuchs
She currently contributes to evaluating the energy implications of manufacturing water reuse, supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program, and understanding barriers to energy-efficient groundwater pumping in California.
Ashok Gadgil
Ashok Gadgil is a Senior Faculty Scientist and Co-lead for the Water-Energy initiative in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab.
Susan Hubbard
Susan Hubbard is the Associate Lab Director for Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Laboratory where she leads a premier group of 500 staff covering a significant research portfolio in climate science, terrestrial ecosystem science, environmental and biological system science, fundamental geoscience, and subsurface energy resources.
Andy Jones
Andy Jones is Deputy Director of the Climate Readiness Institute and a research scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab where he leads the Earth Systems and Society Program Domain.
Preston D. Jordan
Preston D. Jordan is a Principal Scientific Engineering Associate with the Energy Geosciences Division in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab.
Michael Kiparsky
Michael Kiparsky is the founding Director of the Wheeler Water Institute within the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law which has become a widely recognized voice on a range of California water issues.
Robert Kostecki
Robert Kostecki is a Staff Scientist and Deputy Division Director of the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab where research interests focus on fundamental phenomena that determine the function and electrochemical performance of electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems.
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey Long is a Senior Faculty Scientist and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley where his research group focuses on inorganic and solid state chemistry for applications in water separation.
Juliane Mueller
Juliane Mueller is a Research Scientist in the Computational Research Division at Berkley Lab.
Dan Miller
Dan Miller is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab where he is interested in the structure/property relationships that govern the transport of small solutes—including gases, ions, and small-molecule organics—through polymeric membranes.
Peter Nico
Peter Nico is a soil and environmental biogeochemist who studies transition metal redox processes and their impact on the fate and transport of environmental contaminants. He is the lead for the Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure Program Domain in the Energy Geosciences Division of the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab.
Ravi Prasher
Ravi Prasher is the Division Director of Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UC Berkeley.
Nigel William Trevelyan Quinn
Nigel Quinn leads the HydroEcological Engineering Advanced Decision Support research group (HEADS) at Berkeley Lab which specializes in the development of environmental decision support systems to improve understanding and find solutions to complex water resources and water quality problems in California and world-wide.
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh is the Associate Lab Director for the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab and is currently the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in Materials Science and Physics at UC Berkeley.
Prakash Rao
Dr. Prakash Rao is a Research Scientist within the Buildings and Industrial Applications Department at LBNL. Dr. Rao conducts research and analysis into the potential for reducing the energy consumption and water use impacts of the US manufacturing sector while maintaining its productivity. Dr. Rao also conducts analysis of large-scale desalination, focusing on its energy implications and reduction opportunities.
Miquel Salmeron
Miquel Salmeron is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Energy Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley.
Corinne Scown
Corinne Scown is interested in better understanding the interaction between complex, interdependent infrastructure systems and the environment, particularly in the realm of energy and water.
Nic Spycher
Nic Spycher is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division of the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab. He has over twenty years of applied research experience in aqueous geochemistry and water/rock/gas interactions, including the development and application of multicomponent geochemical and reactive transport models.
Brian Van Straalen
Brian Van Straalen is a computer systems engineer in the Computational Research Division at Berkeley Lab.
Hannah Stratton
Hannah Stratton researches water and wastewater rate trends in the U.S. and contributes to EPA WaterSense research and an evaluation of the energy implications of groundwater use in California.
William T. Stringfellow
William T. Stringfellow is Professor and Director of the Ecological Engineering Research Program at the School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. His research interests include treatment and management of agricultural and industrial wastes.
Gregory Su
Gregory Su is a scientist in the Energy Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab. His research interests lie in understanding the chemistry-morphology relationships of polymer-based membranes that dictate performance. This work focuses on leveraging advanced characterization tools including techniques based on X-rays with chemical sensitivity.
Chinmayee Subban
Chinmayee Subban is a staff scientist in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab where her focus is to develop efficient electrode materials for Capacative Deionization (CDI) technology, with the goal of treating widespread brackish water sources in the developing world.
Susannah Tringe
Susannah Tringe heads the Microbial Systems Group at Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute where her work focuses on sequence-based approaches to studying microbial community assembly, function and dynamics.
Jeff Urban
Jeff Urban is a staff scientist in the Energy Sciences Area and Facility Director, Inorganic Nanostructures at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry. His research focuses on elucidating fundamental transport phenomena on the nanoscale, with a focus on energy and electron transport across organic-inorganic interfaces.
Charuleka Varadharajan
Charu Varadhajaran is a biogeochemist and environmental data scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab where her research interests are in the water, energy and carbon nexus to understand and limit the impacts of human activities on water resources and climate.
Haruko Murakami Wainwright
Haruko Murakami Wainwright is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is the deputy lead of the site application thrust in the Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management project, leading the site application at the Savannah River Site F-Area.
Alison Williams
Alison Williams is a Hydrologist and previously worked in water resource planning and policy. She leads the technical work supporting energy conservation standards and test procedure development for air-conditioning and pumping equipment for the US Department of Energy.
Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams is a Staff Geological Scientist and Program Lead for Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division of the Earth & Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab.
Erica Woodburn
Erica Siirila-Woodburn is a Research Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Berkeley Lab where she is developing an advanced hydrologic model to study how climate change might affect California watersheds in the future.
Zexuan Xu
Zexuan Xu is a postdoc fellow at Earth and Environmental Science Area and data science fellow at Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC Berkeley. His research focuses on earth system model dynamical downscaling, integrated hydrology modeling and machine learning models for environmental science applications.
Omar M. Yaghi
Omar Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Senior Staff Scientist in Berkeley Lab's Energy Sciences Area. His research focuses on building chemical structures by stitching molecules together into large and extended frameworks within which we can store hydrogen, methane, and separate carbon dioxide.
Jingjing Zhang
Dr. Jingjing Zhang is a post-doctoral researcher in the Energy Technology Area. Her work involves applying both quantitative modeling and social science methodologies to address the resource tradeoffs and decision making issues at the nexus of water, energy and climate. At Berkeley lab, Dr. Zhang has been leading research in several water-energy focused projects, for example, the U.S.-China bilateral collaboration in water-energy technology CERC-WET and LDRD water-energy initiative.