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Arthur I. Bienenstock, Professor

Address:	Building 10 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2061
E-mail:	a@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://mse.stanford.edu/index.html

Education

B.S., 1955, M.S., 1957, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Ph.D., 1962, Harvard University.

Professional Academic History

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow AERE, Harwell, England, 1962-1963. Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1963-1967. Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Center for Materials Research, Stanford, 1966. Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, 1967-1972. Professor, Applied Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, 1972-present. Professor and Director, SSRL, 1978-1997. Associate Director, SLAC, 1992-1997. Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1997-2001. Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, 2002-2003. Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, 2003-present.

Awards and Honors

Recipient of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society's Sidhu Award, 1968. Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Polytechnic Institute of New York Alumni Association, 1977. Rector's Lecture and Medal, University of Helsinki, 1994. Ph.D. (Honorary), Polytechnic University, 1998. Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration Award, Society of Research Administrators, 2000. Fellow, American Physical Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, American Crystallographic Association. Member, Materials Research Society.

Research Interests

Determination of atomic arrangements in physically interesting amorphous materials using x-ray diffraction and extended x-ray absorption structure.

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Gordon E. Brown, Jr., Professor

Address:	Stanford University Geological & Environmental Sciences, MC 2115 Stanford CA 94305-2115
Phone:	650-723-9168, 650-723-0847
Fax:	650-725-2199
E-mail:	gordon@pangea.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://pangea.stanford.edu/saag/

Education

B.S.,1965, Millsaps College. M.S., 1968, Ph.D., 1970, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Professional Academic History

Assistant Professor, Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1971-1973. Scientific Collaborator, Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1972-1973. Assistant Professor, Geology, Stanford, 1973-1977. Associate Professor, Geology, Stanford, 1977-1986. Visiting Professor, High Temperature Chemistry and Ceramics Division, Sandia National Laboratory, 1983. Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Mineralogie- Cristallographie, Université de Paris 6 & 7, 1984. Professor, Stanford, 1986-present. Chairman, Department of Geology, Stanford, 1986-1992. Co-director, Center for Materials Research, Stanford, 1987-1990. D.W. Kirby Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford, 1991-present. Chair, SSRL Faculty, 1998-2007. Professor, SSRL, 1992-present.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, National Defense Education Act. Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America. Member, Geochemical Society. Member, Materials Research Society. Member, American Geophysical Union.

Research Interests

Characterization of sorption complexes at mineral/water interfaces. Extended x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS) studies. Spectroscopic studies of silicate liquids at high temperatures and pressures and of trace elements in silicate minerals.

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Axel T. Brunger, Professor

Address:	Stanford University J.H. Clark Center, Room E300-C 318 Campus Drive Stanford CA 94305-5432
Phone:	650-736-1031
Fax:	650-745-1463
E-mail:	brunger@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://atb.slac.stanford.edu
Website:	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/faculty/brunger.html

Education

Vordiplom, 1977, Diplom, 1980, University of Hamburg, Germany. Ph. D., 1982, Technical University of Munich,Germany.

Professional Academic History

NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, 1982-1983. Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, 1984. Research Associate, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, 1985-1987. Assistant Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale Univ., 1987-1991. Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1987-1992. 1991-1993 Associate Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 1991-1993. Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1992-1995. Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry,Yale University, 1993-2000. Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, 2000-present. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1995-present.

Awards and Honors

Member of The National Academy of Sciences, 2005. Gregori Aminoff Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2003. Röntgen Prize in Biosciences, University of Würzburg, Germany, 1995. NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-1983. Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship, 1976-1982. National Mathematics Competition Prize, Germany, 1975.

Research Interests

Structural neurobiology, vesicle trafficking and membrane fusion. Structure determination by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Computer simulation of macromolecules

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Philip H. Bucksbaum, Professor

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-5337
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	phb@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://photonscience.slac.stanford.edu/pulse/index.php
Website:	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/faculty/bucksbaum.html

Education

Harvard University A.B. 1975; University of California, Berkeley M.A. 1978; University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 1980.

Awards and Honors

Professor Bucksbaum is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the America Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is Editor of VJUltrafast, the APS Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science. He is also a recipient of the 2000 Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences.

Research Interests

Non-linear optics, precision measurements, high-intensity physics, ultrafast laser physics.

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Christopher E. D. Chidsey, Associate Professor

Address:	Stanford University Dept of Chemistry Stauffer I, MC 5080 Stanford CA 94305-5080
Phone:	650-725-1751,723-0980
Fax:	650-725-0259
E-mail:	chidsey@stanford.edu
	Chemistry Department

Education

A.B., 1978, Dartmouth College; Ph.D., 1983, Stanford.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983-1984. Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1984-1992. Associate Professor, Chemistry, Stanford, 1992-present. Associate Professor, SSRL, 1997-present.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1978-1981. Fanny and John Hertz Fellow, 1982-1983. Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1993. Bing Fellow, 1995.

Research Interests

Physical and interfacial chemistry: Novel molecular chemistry at silicon surfaces, interfacial electron transfer, electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy and adhesion of polymers to solids.

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Bruce M. Clemens, Professor

Address:	Department of Materials Science and Engineering 416 Escondido Mall/ Building 550 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2204
Phone:	650-725-7455
Fax:	650-725-4034
E-mail:	clemens@soe.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/group/glam/

Education

B.S. Colorado School of Mines - Engineering Physics (1978) M.S. California Institute of Technology - Applied Physics (1979) Ph.D. California Institute of Technology - Applied Physics (1983)

Professional Academic History

Senior Research Scientist, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren Michigan 1983-1987, Visiting Scientist, Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu California, 1988, Visiting Professor, Caltech, 1988, Assistant Professor, Stanford University 1989-94, Associate Professor, Stanford University, 1994-2000, Professor, Stanford University, 2000-present. Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2000-present.

Awards and Honors

Recipient of the ASM Silver Metal for Research, elected to the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society.

Research Interests

Metal thin films, superlattices, interfaces, interface reactions, metastable phases, magnetic materials, magneto-transport, nanostructured materials, x-ray diffraction.

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Thomas Devereaux, Professor

Address:	XLAM/SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd., MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-2154
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	tpd@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~tpd

Education

B.S., Mathematics and Physics, New York University, New York, NY, 1986. M.S., Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1988. Ph.D., Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR., 1991.

Professional Academic History

U. S. Department of Education Graduate Fellow, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1989-1991. Post-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, 1991-1993. Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis, CA, 1993-1996. Visiting Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, summer, 1996. Assistant Professor, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1996-1999. Visiting Researcher, École Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle, Paris, spring 2002, 2004-2006. Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, 1999-2006. Sabbatical – visiting Associate Professor, Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics & Dept. of Physics, UBC, Vancouver, 2005-2006. Associate Member, Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics, UBC, Vancouver, 2005-present. Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, 2006-present. Professor, Photon Science Faculty, 2007-present.

Awards and Honors

U. S. Department of Education Fellowship, 1989-1991. Junior Scholar Incentive Award, George Washington University, 1998. Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2002-2006. Premier's Research Excellence Award, Province of Ontario, 2003. Scientist Research Fellowship, Embassy of France, 2005 & 2006.

Research Interests

Development of numerical methods and theories of photon-based spectroscopies of strongly correlated materials.

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Sebastian Doniach, Professor

Address:	Stanford University Dept of Applied Physics Ginzton Lab, MC: 4090 Stanford CA 94305-4090
Phone:	650-723-4786
Fax:	650-725-0259
E-mail:	Doniach@drizzle.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/group/glam/

Education

B.A.,1954, Cambridge University, England. Ph.D., 1958, University of Liverpool, England.

Professional Academic History

ICI Fellow, University of Liverpool, 1958-1960. Lecturer, Queen Mary College, 1960-1964 and at Imperial College, 1964-1966, University of London. Reader in Physics, Imperial College, 1967-1969, University of London. Professor, Applied Physics, Stanford, 1969-present. Professor Associé University of Paris, 1975-1976, 1978, 1982. JSPS Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, 1978. Director, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), 1973-1978. Affiliated Faculty, SSRL, 1979-1991. Visiting Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1987-1991. Chair of SSRL Faculty, 1992-1998. Professor, SSRL, 1992-present. Professor, Physics, Stanford, 1996-present.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Research Interests

Theoretical physics of cooperative phenomena in condensed matter systems. Application of synchrotron radiation to structural studies of biological systems at the molecular level.

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Kelly Gaffney, Assistant Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-2382
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	kgaffney@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/ultrafast/index.html

Education

B.S., 1993, The Evergreen State College.
Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Berkeley.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, 2001-2003. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SSRL. Assistant Professor, SSRL, 2004-present.

Awards and Honors

Member of the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society.

Research Interests

Using femtosecond x-ray pulses to study structural dynamics in condensed matter, with emphasis on chemical dynamics in biology and chemistry. This will involve the merger of linear accelerator generated x-rays with ultrafast optical lasers and the development of time resolved x-ray diffraction, scattering, and spectroscopy.

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John Galayda, Professor

Address:	LCLS 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 103 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-2371
Fax:	650-926-4695
E-mail:	galayda@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/

Education

B.A., 1970 Lehigh University.
Ph.D., 1977, Rutgers University

Professional Academic History

Assistant Physicist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1977- 1979. Associate (Project) Physicist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1979- 1984. Group Leader, Diagnostics Group, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1984- 1985. Section Head; Computer/Controls/Diagnostics Section, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1985- 1987. Associate Chairman for Accelerators, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1987- 1990. Director of the Accelerator Systems Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 1990- 1999. Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Advance Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 1999- 2001. Director, Linac Coherent Light Source, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2001- Present.

Awards and Honors

Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1996. R&D Award for global feedback orbit control, 1989. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1970.

Research Interests

Manipulation and control of electron beams using laser light, the characteristics of synchrotron radiation from an FEL and beam-based feedback stabilization systems. The last topic is relevant to light sources based on storage rings and energy recover linacs as well as to FELs.

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Martin Greven, Assistant Professor

Address:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials McCullough Building, Room 344 Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-4045
Phone:	650-725-8978
Fax:	650-723-3044
E-mail:	greven@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/group/greven/

Education

Vordiplom 1988, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. Ph.D. 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-1997. Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, SSRL, 1998-present.

Awards and Honors

Exchange Scholar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988-89. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1999-01.
NSF CAREER Award, 2000-04. Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, 2003.

Research Interests

Materials physics with an emphasis on advanced single crystal growth, x-ray scattering, and neutron scattering of high-temperature superconductors and materials that exhibit low-dimensional magnetism.

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Janos Hajdu, Professor

Address:	SSRL/SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-5593
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	janos@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://xray.bmc.uu.se/molbiophys/people.php

Education

B.Diploma in Chemistry, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, 1973. Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1980. M.A. Stat., Oxford University, 1988. D.Sc., Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1994.

Professional Academic History

Research Fellow, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1973-1981. Research Associate Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University, 1981-1988. MRC Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University, 1988-1996. Lecturer in biophysics and biochemistry, Christ Church, Oxford University, 1988-1996. Professor of Biochemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1995-2003. Founding Member, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, Oxford University, 1988 - present. Professor of Biophysics, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2003-present. Professor, SSRL Faculty, 2006-present.

Awards and Honors

Award recognizing Outstanding Achievements form the Swedish Research Council, 2001. Senior Individual Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research., 2004. Recognition (from the Swedish Research Council) for creating an Outstanding Research Environment in Uppsala, 2005.

Research Interests

Main fields Biophysics and Structural Biology Other fields X-ray crystallography Current interests Free-electron lasers, single molecule imaging. Development of structural studies on single biological molecules at atomic resolution using coherent x-rays, opening a broad new avenue of biostructural investigation.

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Britt Hedman, Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-3052
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	hedman@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/dept/chemistry/

Education

B.S., B.A., 1971, University of Umeå, Sweden. M.S., 1972, University of Umeå, Sweden. Ph.D., University of Umeå, Sweden, 1978.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate (equiv), University of Umeå, Sweden, 1978-1982. Assistant Professor, University of Umeå, Sweden, 1982-1985. Senior Research Associate, SSRL, 1985-2001. Adjunct Professor, University of Umeå, Sweden, 1996-2002. Assistant Director, SSRL, 2001-2007. Professor (Research), SSRL, 2002-2007. Deputy Director, SSRL, 2005-present. Professor, SSRL, 2007-present. Vice Chair, SSRL Faculty, 2007-present.

Awards and Honors

Swedish Natural Science Research Council Visitor Scholarship 1983. Farrel W. Lytle Award 2001.

Research Interests

Biophysical, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry: Development of methodology and instrumentation for x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and application to studies of electronic and geometric structures of active sites in metalloenzymes and generally in structural biology, bioinorganic mimetic systems, and inorganic systems.

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Keith O. Hodgson, Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-3153, 650-723-1328
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	hodgson@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/dept/chemistry/

Education

B.S.,1969, University of Virginia. Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Berkeley.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland, 1973. Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Stanford, 1973-1979. Associate Professor, Chemistry, Stanford, 1979-1984. Professor, Chemistry, Stanford, 1984-present. Assistant Director, SSRL, 1980-1995. Deputy Director, SSRL, 1996-1997. Director, SSRL, 1997-2005. SLAC Photon Science Director, 2005 - present. Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins Stanford University Professor of Chemistry and SSRL, 2002-present

Awards and Honors

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1976-78. Sidhu X-ray Diffraction Award, 1978. Robert A. Welch Foundation Lecturer, 1981. Guest Professor, Xiamen University, PRC, 1984. E.O. Lawrence Award, 2002.

Research Interests

Inorganic, Biophysical and Structural Chemistry: The use of x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to investigate the electronic and structural environment of specific metal constituents in non-crystalline macromolecular systems. The use of high-intensity synchrotron radiation for diffraction studies of proteins and phasing by anomalous scattering methods.

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Ingolf Lindau, Professor (Emeritus)

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-3456
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	lindau@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu

Education

Ph.D.,1971, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral Fellow, Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California 1971-72. Research Associate, Stanford, 1972-74. Adjunct Professor, Stanford, 1974-1981. Head of Scientific Staff, SSRL, 1977-80; Associate Director, SSRL, 1980-1990. Professor, Stanford, 1981-90. Professor of Research, Stanford, 1990-97. Professor Emeritus, Stanford 1998-. Professor of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University 1990-. Director of Max-Laboratory, 1991-97; Project Scientist, Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC/SSRL, 1990-.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society; Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests

Electronic and structural properties of surfaces and interfaces; application of synchrotron radiation for photoionization processes and electron scattering mechanisms; optics and beamline instrumentation for synchrotron radiation research.

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Aaron Lindenberg, Assistant Professor

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-4558 (SLAC), 650-725-2640 (Campus)
Fax:	650-926-4100 (SLAC), 650-725-4034 (Campus)
E-mail:	aaronl@slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://photonscience.slac.stanford.edu/pulse/index.php

Education

B.A., 1992, Columbia University. Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Berkeley.

Professional Academic History

Faculty Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2001-2003. Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering joint with Photon Science, SLAC, 2007-present

Awards and Honors

Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Physics, 1996, Phi Beta Kappa, I.I. Rabi Scholar at Columbia University, 1992-1996.

Research Interests

atomic-scale ultrafast dynamics, phase transitions, liquid-state dynamics, materials under extreme conditions, THz spectroscopy, time-resolved x-ray techniques.

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Wendy Mao, Assistant Professor

Address:	Green Earth Sciences Room 251 Geological and Environmental Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2115 USA
Phone:	650-723-3718
Fax:	650-725-6566
E-mail:	wmao@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/emp/

Education

B.S., 1998, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 2005, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago,

Professional Academic History

J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2005-2007. Assistant Professor, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 2007-present. Assistant Professor, Photon Science Faculty, 2007-present.

Awards and Honors

J.R. Oppenheimer Fellowship, 2005-2007. Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, 2006. Mineral and Rock Physics Group Student Research Award, 2006. Phi Beta Kappa at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994-1998.

Research Interests

High-Pressure Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Petrology; Volatiles in Planetary Systems and Hydrogen Storage Applications; Experimental Mineral Physics.

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Anders Nilsson, Associate Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-2233
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	nilsson@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	Http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/nilssongroup

Education

M.S., 1980, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Ph.D., 1989, Uppsala University, Sweden

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1989-90. Research Associate, Uppsala University, 1990-92. Natural Research Council Fellow, Sweden, 1993-1998. Visiting Scientist, Advanced Light Source, Berkeley,1994-97. Associate Professor, Uppsala University, 1999. Professor,Uppsala University, 2000. Associate Professor, SSRL., 2000-present.

Awards and Honors

Liljevalls Award, Uppsala, Sweden, 1988. Ångström Award, Uppsala, 1990. The Lindbomska Award, Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991. The Royal Oscars Award, Uppsala, 1994. The Shirley Award, Berkeley, 1998.

Research Interests

X-ray and electron spectroscopies applied to surfaces and interfaces, chemical bonding and reactions on surfaces, hydrogen bonding in water and organic systems, Aqueous solutions and interfaces, Heterogenous- and biomimetic enzyme catalysis.

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R. Paul Phizackerley, Professor (Emeritus)

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-3431
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	phiz@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu

Education

HNC., 1966, Applied Physics, College of Arts and Technology, Cambridge, England. Ph.D., 1971, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, England.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland, 1971-1972. The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1972-1977: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1972-1972; Instructor in Biophysics, 1974-1976; Assistant Professor of Biophysics, 1976-1977. Senior Research Associate, SSRL, 1977-1993. Professor (Research), SSRL, 1993-present.

Awards and Honors

Farrel Lytle Award, SSRL, 2002. Member, American Crystallographic Association. Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Research Interests

Development of novel techniques and specialized instrumentation forstructural studies in molecular biology, using synchrotron radiation. In particular, developments in protein crystallography:- anomalous scattering phasing, time-resolved studies, cryo crystallography, automation, high-throughput crystallography, robotics and advanced electronic detectors.

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Piero A. Pianetta, Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-3484
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	pianetta@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group :	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/pianettagroup/

Education

B.S., 1971, University of Santa Clara. M.S., 1973, Ph.D., 1976, Stanford University.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Stanford, 1977-1978. Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard Co., 1978-1982. Professor (Research), Electrical Engineering, SSRL, 1982-present. Assistant Director, SSRL, 1982-2005. Deputy Director, SSRL, 2005-present.

Awards and Honors

Member, American Physical Society. Member, American Vacuum Society, Fellow, American Physical Society, 2006.

Research Interests

Use of synchrotron radiation for the characterization of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces.

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Zhi-Xun Shen, Professor

Address:	Stanford University Dept of Applied Physics McCullough Bldg.357B , MC: 4045 Stanford CA 94305-4045
Phone:	650-725-8254
Fax:	650-725-5457
E-mail:	zxshen@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/group/glam/

Education

B.S. 1983, Fudan University. M.S. 1985, Rutgers University. Ph.D. 1989, Stanford University.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate, Stanford, 1989-1990. Acting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 1991-1992. Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, SSRL, 1992-1996. Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Physics, SSRL, 1996-present.

Awards and Honors

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993. NSF Young Investigator Award, 1993. Outstanding Young Researcher Award, OCPA, 1993. Materials Sciences Research Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment, DOE/BES, 1994. Centennial Lecture, American Physical Society, 1999. H. Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, 2000. The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award, 2002. Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003.

Research Interests

Physical properties of novel materials: high-Tc superconductors, magnetic oxides and alloys, magnetic thin films and multilayers, semiconductors, dielectric materials, conducting transparent oxides, organic metals and superconductors, fullerene, diamondoids and other carbon nanoclusters and nanotubes.
Surface and interface properties of metals, semiconductors, superconductors, metal oxides.
Development of high-precision material's characterization techniques and instrumentation: x-ray and electron beam generation and detection, photoemission spectroscopy, x-ray absorption and scattering, synchrotron radiation instrumentation, soft x-ray, optical and microwave imaging and spectroscopy.

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Edward I. Solomon, Professor

Address:	Stanford University Mudd 141, MC:5080 Stanford CA 94305-4045
Phone:	650-723-9104
Fax:	650-725-0259
E-mail:	Edward.Solomon@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www.stanford.edu/group/solomon/

Education

B.S., 1968, Rensselaer; M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1972, Princeton University

Professional Academic History

Assistant Professor, MIT, 1975-1979; Associate Professor, Stanford; 1979-1981; Professor, MIT, 1981-1982; Professor, Stanford University, 1982-present; Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry.

Awards and Honors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1976-79; Dupont and General Electric Young Faculty Awards, 1979-80; World Bank (1984), Rice (1984), Reilly (1986), Frontiers (1990), 1st Seaborg (1990), ACS (1992), National Science Council (1993), Xerox (1994), Leermakers (1994), Amoco (1995), Kahn (1996), Golden Jubilee (1996), Karcher (1997), FMC (1998) Colloquium 3eme Cycle (1998) A.D. Little (1998); Aldrich (2001); Hill Memorial (2003), Cady (2003), Kieler Woche (2003), Crawford (2004), Walton (2005) Lectures, JSPS Fellow (1995, 2002); Remsen Award; Wheland Medal; ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2001); Frontiers in Biological Chemistry Award (MPI-2001); Centenary Medal and Lectureship (Royal Society, UK 2003), ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (2006), Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching; Fellow, A.A.A.S. and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Elected to the National Academy of Sciences; Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry.

Research Interests

Our research emphasizes the detailed application of a wide variety of spectroscopic methods combined with molecular orbital calculations to probe the electronic structure of a transition metal complex and its relation to physical properties and reactivity. Three areas of physical-inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry are of general interest: chemical and spectroscopic studies of metalloprotein active sites; detailed spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of high symmetry transition metal complexes; and the development of synchrotron spectroscopies (at SSRL) to solve important problems in inorganic chemistry.

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Joachim Stöhr, Professor

Address:	SSRL 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 69 Menlo Park, CA 94025-7015
Phone:	650-926-2570
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	stohr@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/stohr/

Education

Vordiplom in Physics, 1968, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany. M.Sc., 1971, Washington State University. Ph.D., 1974, Technische Universität München, Germany.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral, Technische Universität München, Germany, 1974-1975. Postdoctoral Scholarship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, 1975-1976. Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1976-1977. Senior Research Associate, SSRL, 1977-1981. Senior Staff Physicist, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 1981-1985. Research Staff Member/Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center, 1985-1999. Professor, SSRL, 2000-present. Deputy Associate Director of the SSRL Scientific Program, 2000-2005. Director of SSRL 2005-Present.

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Scholarship 1969-70
Postdoctoral Scholarship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1975-76
Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1988
Adjoint Professor in Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden (1993-2000)
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award 1997

Research Interests

Development of novel experimental soft x-ray synchrotron radiation techniques. Early work was centered on exploring the structure and properties of surfaces and the development of such techniques as surface extended x-ray absorption fine structure (SEXAFS) for exploring surface structures, and near edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) for the study of simple and complex molecules bonded to surfaces and for the study of thin organic (polymeric) films. Recent work emphasizes the study of magnetic materials and phenomena, especially the use of polarization dependent spectroscopy and the development of x-ray magnetic imaging techniques for the study of the ultrafast magnetic nanoworld.

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William Weis, Professor

Address:	Stanford University Dept of Structural Biology Fairchild D139, MC 5126
Phone:	650-725-4623,650-725-4625
Fax:	650-723-8464
E-mail:	bill.weis@stanford.edu
Research Group:	http://med.stanford.edu/school/structuralbio/

Education

A.B. 1981, Princeton University. Ph.D. 1988, Harvard University.

Professional Academic History

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yale University, 1988
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University, 1989-1992.Assistant Professor of Structural Biology, Stanford, 1993-1999. Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (by courtesy), Stanford, 1994-1999. Assistant Professor, SSRL, 1997-1999. Associate Professor of Structural Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford, 1999-2004 and Associate Professor SSRL, 1999-2004. Professor of Structural Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford, 2004

Awards and Honors

Life Science Research Foundation Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1989-1992. Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, 1994-1998. Stanford/HowardHughes Medical Institute Junior Faculty Scholar Award, 1996-1998. Hume Faculty Scholar, Stanford School of Medicine, 1996-1997. Member, American Crystallographic Association.

Research Interests

Cell membrane recognition, signaling, and adhesion processes studied by crystallographic structure determination and physical biochemistry.

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Helmut Wiedemann, Professor (Emeritus)

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-2503
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	wiedemann@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu

Education

M.S. 1963, Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Ph.D. 1971, University of Hamburg.

Professional Academic History

Physicist, Siemens Medical Betatron Department, 1963-1965. Physicist High-Energy Physics Laboratory, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 1965-1974. Assistant Director, 18 GeV PEP Storage Ring, SLAC, Stanford, 1975-1983. Adjunct Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1980. Professor, Applied Physics, SSRL, 1983-present. Project Director, SPEAR Injector Synchrotron, SSRL, 1987-1990.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society.

Research Interests

Developments in theoretical and experimental accelerator physics, particle sources, linear accelerators, storage rings, and synchrotron radiation sources. Special interest in developing high brightness light sources at short pulse duration. Specific goals are to produce femto second electron pulses and convert them to a tunable source of femto second, coherent light pulses to be used for fundamental research and beam physics.

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Herman Winick, Professor (Emeritus)

Address:	SLAC 2575 Sand Hill Rd. MS 69 Menlo Park CA 94025
Phone:	650-926-3155
Fax:	650-926-4100
E-mail:	winick@slac.stanford.edu

Education

A.B., 1953, Ph.D., 1957, Columbia University.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate and Lecturer, University of Rochester, 1957-1959. Staff Physicist, Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Harvard University, 1959-1973. Head of Operations Division, Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Harvard University, 1967-1973. Assistant Director, Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Harvard University, 1973. Senior Research Associate, Stanford, 1973-1974. Professor (Research), Applied Physics, SSRL, 1974-present. Deputy Associate Director, SSRL, 1974-1995. Assistant Director, SSRL 1996-1997.

Awards and Honors

Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1986). Winner in Solid State Physics category of the DOE's Materials Sciences Research Competition (1987). US Particle Accelerator School Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology (1995). US Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award (2000). New York Academy of Sciences Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award ((2005). Fellow, American Physical Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Research Interests

Development of sources and facilities for synchrotron radiation research (storage rings, wiggler and undulator magnets, free electron lasers). Proposed, and Instrumental in the development of, the SESAME project: (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East). See www.sesame.org.jo for the most current information.
Two Stanford articles on the SESAME project:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/october25/sesame-102506.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/306/5701/1465.pdf