Team

Zhao Fan, Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised with Mark Asta and Piotr Zaryzicki)

Molecular simulations and machine learned potentials for rocksalt cathode formation from molten salts

Dimitrius Khaladj, Postdoctoral Fellow

Electrokinetic liquid crystal chromatography for critical element extraction with reinforcement learning

Naman Katyal, Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised with Gerbrand Ceder)

Accelerating the automated synthesis and characterization of battery materials with AI

Chunhui Li, Postdoctoral Fellow (co-advised with Piotr Zaryzicki)

Data-driven mineralogy for lithium resource prospecting and separation

Melese Dessie, Postdoc (co-advised with Ben Gilbert)

Mineral-water interfacial energy, thermodynamics, and stress-driven dissolution/precipitation processes.

Juhyeok Lee, Postdoc (co-advised with Mary Scott)

AI enabled electron cryo tomography

Deepak Rawat, Postdoc

Thermochemistry of material synthesis from natural resources

Xuan Cao, Postdoc

Machine intelligence to support lithium anode synthesis from mineral resources

Ayumi Koishi, Postdoctoral Fellow

Molecular pathways of trace element incorporation during carbonate crystal growth.

Avery Agles, Next-Gen Nuclear Waste Disposal Internship (INGENUITY) Graduate Intern

A new view of water at mineral interfaces with cryo electron tomography

Home institution: Princeton

Ruby Onsongo, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Undergraduate intern

Thermochemistry of mineral precusors for the synthesis of next-generation battery materials

Home institution: Stanford

Eugene Vuong, Advancing STEM Pioneers In Research in Energy Sciences (ASPIRES) Undergraduate intern

Deep neural network design for critical element prospecting

Home institution: Cal State East Bay

George Liu, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Workforce Innovation Program Undergraduate post-baccalaureate intern

Automated chemical data acquisition for critical element prospecting

Home institution: UC Berkeley

Matt Goff, Senior Data Scientist

Deep neural network design for automated spectral analysis of mineral composition and structure

Meg Slattery, Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center (LiRRIC) intern and Graduate Student

Facilitating procedural justice in the lithium-ion battery supply chain by connecting research on environmental and socioeconomic impacts of direct lithium extraction with the interests of the local community. Meg started working with the LiRRIC team as an intern in June 2021.

Home institution: UC Davis

Yuntian Teng, Next-Gen Nuclear Waste Disposal Internship (INGENUITY) Graduate Intern

Understanding energy flow in swelling clays with hydration calorimetry.

Home Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology

Mohammad Shoaib, Postdoctoral Fellow

Electrokinetic feedback extraction of critical elements and mineralogy of unconventional domestic critical element resources.

Chloe Davidson, Science Undergraduate Laboratory (SULI) undergraduate intern

Chole worked with the Living Minerals Team during the summer of 2019 to discover new cellular organization strategies via cryo electron tomogram segmentation

Natalia Martinez Ojeda, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) graduate intern

Natalia worked with the Living Minerals Team during the summer of 2021 to mine data for ore. 

Home Institution: University of Puerto Rico