Especially complex innovative ideas in natural science face challenges in having access to partly very capitalintensive equipment and lab spaces. The Molecular Foundry tackles this problem by provides visiting researchers (“users”) with access to leading-edge scientific instruments. In an innovative twist on the traditional user facility model, users also gain access to world-renowned scientists who devote their expertise to the users’ research goals in a uniquely multidisciplinary, collaborative environment. Selected through an external peer-review process, over 1000 academic, industrial and government users come from around the world each year, free of charge. The jury found this to be a great effort in democratizing access to science, accelerated greatly during the pandemic.
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Kristin Persson
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Molecular Foundry
Kristin Persson is a Swedish American physicist and chemist. She is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the Energy Science Area, where she is the director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy, and a professor at University of California, Berkeley in the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Persson is the director of the Molecular Foundry.
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