Kristin Persson
Biography
Kristin Aslaug Persson is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley with a joint appointment with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She obtained her Ph.D in Theoretical Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in 2001. During the years 2001-2008 she held a postdoctoral appointment and later a research associate position at MIT.
Persson is the Director of The Materials Project (www.materialsproject.org) which is an open ‘Google’ of materials data and – to date – has attracted more than 23,000 users worldwide. She is also the Director of the 2012 BES-funded ‘Materials Project Center for Functional Electronic Materials Design’ and leads one of the five thrusts in the BES-funded Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) (www.jcesr.org). Kristin is also a PI of the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program (http://batt.lbl.gov) and leads the Theory Guiding Synthesis effort in the 2014 EFRC Center for Next Generation Materials Design (CNGMD). In 2009 she co-founded the clean-energy start-up Pellion Technologies Inc. (www.pelliontech.com), recipient of an ARPA-E award in 2010 for developing high-energy rechargeable magnesium batteries. She was awarded the 2013 LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
Persson is the Director of The Materials Project (www.materialsproject.org) which is an open ‘Google’ of materials data and – to date – has attracted more than 23,000 users worldwide. She is also the Director of the 2012 BES-funded ‘Materials Project Center for Functional Electronic Materials Design’ and leads one of the five thrusts in the BES-funded Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) (www.jcesr.org). Kristin is also a PI of the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program (http://batt.lbl.gov) and leads the Theory Guiding Synthesis effort in the 2014 EFRC Center for Next Generation Materials Design (CNGMD). In 2009 she co-founded the clean-energy start-up Pellion Technologies Inc. (www.pelliontech.com), recipient of an ARPA-E award in 2010 for developing high-energy rechargeable magnesium batteries. She was awarded the 2013 LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
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