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id="post-100" class="post-100 page type-page status-publish hentry" aria-label="Leadership"> <div class="post-content"> <div class="entry-content"> <lbl-container> <lbl-section-header title="ESA Office" text="" margin-bottom > </lbl-section-header> <lbl-grid columns="2" layout="profile-card" > <lbl-profile-card title="Jeffrey B. Neaton" sub-title="Associate Laboratory Director" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Energy Sciences" > <img decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/XBD201709-00170-003-330x330-1.png" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Jeffrey Neaton" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>Jeff Neaton leads Berkeley Lab's Energy Sciences Area. He is a Senior Faculty Scientist at Berkeley Lab, a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley. His research involves the development and use of ab initio quantum theory for studies of complex materials and molecular systems with relevance to clean energy and information technology, where he harnesses computational and data science approaches and often works in close collaboration with experiments. A former Director of The Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab, and a PECASE awardee, he is a fellow of the American Physical Society and an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.</p> <p>Jeff can be contacted through Administrator Nick Moore.</p> </lbl-rich-text> <lbl-button text="Contact Information" link-target="_blank" link-url="mailto:nmoore@lbl.gov" slot="inline-btn" type="inline" > </lbl-button> </lbl-profile-card> <lbl-profile-card title="Melissa A. Summers" sub-title="Area Deputy" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Energy Sciences" > <img decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/XBD201711-00212-001-330x330-1.png" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Melissa Summers" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>As ESA Deputy, Melissa Summers partners with the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences to formulate and carry out policy, processes, and scientific strategy to shepherd and grow ESA鈥檚 diverse research portfolio, user programs, and infrastructure. Melissa holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in chemistry and was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs.</p> </lbl-rich-text> </lbl-profile-card> <lbl-profile-card title="Alison Hatt" sub-title="Communications Lead" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Energy Sciences" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/hatt_profile_v2_square-low-res-330x330.jpeg" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Head shot of Alison Hatt" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>ESA Communications Lead Alison Hatt manages strategic communications functions of the ESA Office, in collaboration with Area leadership and Berkeley Lab鈥檚 Strategic Communications Office, among others. Alison holds a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Materials. Her previous Lab positions include User Program Director at the Molecular Foundry and Communications Specialist in the Materials Sciences Division. She previously worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) user facility and as a freelance science writer and consultant.</p> </lbl-rich-text> </lbl-profile-card> </lbl-grid> </lbl-content-filter> </lbl-container> <lbl-divider></lbl-divider> <lbl-container> <lbl-section-header title="ESA Division Directors" text="" margin-bottom > </lbl-section-header> <lbl-grid columns="2" layout="profile-card" > <lbl-profile-card title="Dimitri Argyriou" sub-title="Division Director" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Advanced Light Source" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/2023_Newscenter_330px_Dimitri-Argyriou_Credit_European-Spallation-Source-1.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Dimitri Argyriou" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>Dimitri Argyriou is an internationally recognized condensed matter physicist who utilizes neutrons and X-rays to understand emergent behavior in complex oxides and novel superconductors. He has worked across scientific areas that include solid state chemistry, crystal growth and theory. He joined the lab from the European Spallation Source where he was Director of Science. Argyriou received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia and his habilitation from Rheinisch-Westf盲lische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Prize for his work on multiferroics.</p> </lbl-rich-text> </lbl-profile-card> <lbl-profile-card title="Polly L. Arnold" sub-title="Division Director" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Chemical Sciences" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/PollyArnold.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Polly Arnold" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>Polly Arnold is a renowned heavy-element chemist who joined Berkeley Lab from the University of Edinburgh where she was the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry. She is also a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on advancing our understanding of the bonding and reactivity of heavy elements, the elements of the f-block of the periodic table. Among her many awards and honors, Arnold is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded the 2012 Rosalind Franklin Award and Order of the British Empire in 2017 for her outstanding contributions to chemistry and women in STEM.</p> </lbl-rich-text> </lbl-profile-card> <lbl-profile-card title="Peter Fischer" sub-title="Division Director" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Materials Sciences" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/XBD201507-00260-330x330-1.png" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Peter Fischer" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>Peter Fischer received his Ph.D. in Physics (Dr.rer.nat.) from the Technical University in Munich, Germany in 1993 on pioneering work with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in rare earth systems. Since 2004 he has been with the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA. He is a Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Non-Equilibrium Magnetic Materials Program. His research program is focused on the use of polarized synchrotron radiation for the study of fundamental problems in magnetism.</p> </lbl-rich-text> </lbl-profile-card> <lbl-profile-card title="Andrew Minor" sub-title="Interim Division Director" layout="stacked" img-size="" description="Molecular Foundry" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="330" height="330" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Andrew-Minor-330x330.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-sm size-lbl-components-sm" alt="Headshot of Andrew Minor" slot="media" /> <lbl-rich-text slot="text"> <p>Andrew Minor is a materials scientist with an internationally renowned research program focusing on the development and use of leading-edge electron microscopy approaches for the study of structural and mechanical properties of materials at the nanoscale. 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