
Berkeley Lab
Episodes
20 episodes
Expert Interview: Sean Peisert on Cybersecurity Research
Cybersecurity is essential to protecting the data, infrastructure, and technologies behind modern science and society. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Sean Peisert leads efforts to secure ever...
•
9:49

Expert Interview: Ashfia Huq on the Macroscale Promise of Nanoscale Science
The Molecular Foundry is a state-of-the-art user facility that provides expertise, methods, and instrumentation for scientists to study materials at the nanoscale. In this episode, Ashfia shares with us the Foundry's mission, its capabilities, ...
•
8:03

Expert Interview: Nigel Mouncey
In this 5-minute audio interview, listen as Nigel Mouncey, Director of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), explains how this user facility supports the world’s scientists.Featuring: Nigel Mouncey, the Director of ...
•
5:35

Expert Interview: Cameron Geddes on Fusion Energy
Fusion energy has the potential to transform energy supplies for the world. At the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researchers are developing the technologies and techniques needed to make fusion energy a reality. ...
•
9:05

Expert Interview: Eva Schill on the Promise of Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Geothermal energy taps into the Earth’s natural heat—but what happens when that heat isn’t easily accessible? Berkeley Lab scientists are working to solve that problem through enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS. In this episode, we talk with E...
•
9:58

Expert Interview: Harshi Mukundan on Biosecurity Research
In this audio interview, listen as Berkeley Lab’s Harshi Mukundan, a microbiologist in the Biosciences Area and Chemical and Biological Technologies Lead in the Lab’s Office of National and Homeland Security, discusses the importance of biosecu...
•
9:41

Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine on Chip Manufacturing Advances at the ALS
After decades of research and development, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has recently reached the point of high-volume semiconductor manufacturing, marking a significant technological breakthrough. Berkeley Lab’s Center for X-ray Optics...
•
6:50

Expert Interview: Marc Allaire on Breakthrough Medical Discoveries at the ALS
The Advanced Light Source is home to many techniques that can reveal atomic details of molecules and materials. The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) leads a subset of these capabilities that are focused on elucidating the structure...
•
11:06

Expert Interview: Ethan Crumlin on Advancing Energy Materials at the ALS
Batteries power everything from the phone in your pocket to grid-scale energy storage, and their technology has advanced dramatically over the years. Developing reliable and efficient energy materials is crucial to this progress. For the past 3...
•
9:08

Expert Interview: Dimitri Argyriou on Seeing Things More Clearly, in the Right Light
Scientists are using light at X-ray wavelengths to reveal the secret worlds of atoms and electrons. The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The ALS mission is t...
•
8:54

Expert Interview: Sudip Dosanjh
The integration of high-performance computing and AI is accelerating scientific discovery, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is at the forefront of innovation. With ove...
•
8:06

Expert Interview: Deepti Tanjore on Boosting American Biotech
The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) is helping catalyze a new era of manufacturing: using biology to produce innovative materials, fuels, foods, and more. The ABPDU provides the technical resources, equipment,...
•
9:05

Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine
Bruno La Fontaine, Director of the Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO), speaks on how the CXRO supports the microchip industry.
•
3:20

Expert Interview: Blake Simmons on Beer and Biomanufacturing
Biomanufacturing sounds complicated, but in a simple explanation, it is using biology and biological systems to perform certain operations in the manufacturing process. The goal is to produce goods and products that can be sold in the marketpla...
•
9:34

Chin Guok: Leveraging AI for ESnet7
Listen to ESnet’s Chief Technology Officer Chin Guok discuss AI advancement opportunities for ESnet7 during a 2024 AI workshop.
•
0:45

Expert Interview: Inder Monga on Big Science, AI, and Quantum with ESnet
Scientific breakthroughs rely on seamless data movement, much like a circulatory system delivering vital knowledge. Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s sole high-performance networking user facility, keeps this system ru...
•
7:55
