sgminasian@lbl.gov

ORCiD: 0000-0003-1346-7497

Web of Science ResearcherID: A-9887-2018

• B.A. in Chemistry, Reed College (2002). Thesis Advisor: Prof. Margret Geselbracht

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2009). Thesis Advisor: Prof. John Arnold

• Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2009-2013). Co-Advisors: David Clark, Stosh Kozimor, and David Shuh

pwsmith@lbl.gov

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-4895

Patrick received his B.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego where he performed undergraduate research with Prof. Joshua Figueroa. He completed his Ph.D. with Prof. T. Don Tilley at UC Berkeley, where he studied unsaturated interactions between group 8 and group 14 elements. Patrick was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Yogesh Surendranath at MIT. He is currently researching molecular quantum materials based on organolanthanide and organoactinide complexes.

jqnguyen@lbl.gov

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8058-7099

Joseph received his B.S. in Chemistry in 2019 from the University of California, Los Angeles while conducting undergraduate research in the lab of Professor Paula L. Diaconescu. In 2025, he graduated with his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine working with Professor William J. Evans. There, he studied the synthesis and reactivity of rare-earth metal and actinide complexes in low oxidation states. 

dominic_russo@berkeley.edu

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4014-9216

Dominic completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry with Prof. Henry La Pierre at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dominic is co-advised by Prof. Jeffrey Long at UC Berkeley.