Kristin Persson

Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius [1] and Einar Benedikt Olafsson.[2] She is a Faculty Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[3] Currently, she is also the Director of the Molecular Foundry,[4] a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the Director and Co-Founder of the Materials Project,[5] a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials. Her research group [6] focuses on the data-driven computational design and prediction of new materials for clean energy production and storage applications.

Kristin Aslaug Persson
Alma materLund Institute of Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
Known forMaterials Project
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials science
Chemistry
Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thesis
Doctoral advisorProf. Göran Grimvall
Websiteperssongroup.lbl.gov


Education

Persson holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology[7] in Sweden and completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden in 2001, under the supervision of Göran Grimvall. After her Ph.D., she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate from 2001-2002 and 2004-2007.

Awards and honors
  • 2022: AAAS Fellow [8]
  • 2022: Cooper Lecture, West Virginia University [9]
  • 2022: Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award[10]
  • 2021: Fellow of the American Physical Society[11]
  • 2020, 2021, 2022: Highly Cited Researcher, by Web of Science[12]
  • 2020: Falling Walls Award in Science and Innovation Management[13]
  • 2018: Kavli Fellow[14]
  • 2018: Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award[15]
  • 2017: TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award[16]
  • 2013: Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific[17]

References
  1. Eva Haettner Aurelius
  2. Einar Benedikt Olafsson
  3. University of California – Faculty profile: Kristin Persson
  4. Kristin Persson Named Director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab News
  5. Materials Project
  6. Persson Research Group
  7. Center for Next Generation of Materials Design Energy Frontier Research Center – CV Kristin Persson
  8. "2022 AAAS Fellow". aaas.org.
  9. "Cooper Lecture Series". physics.wvu.edu.
  11. "APS Fellows Archive". aps.org. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  12. "Highly Cited Researchers". Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  13. "Falling Walls Winners Session: Science and Innovation Management | Falling Walls". falling-walls.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  14. 151 Young Scientists to Participate in 2018 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia of the National Academy of Sciences
  15. Berkeley Lab Energy Technology Area – Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award
  16. Secretary of Berkeley Lab Energy Technology Area – TMS 2017 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award
  17. Berkeley Lab Energy Technology Area – Director's Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific
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