Faculty News

Berkeley Physics Announces 2 New Faculty Hires

February 10, 2023

Color photos of Raul Briceno and Shimmon Kolkowitz

Berkeley Physics is pleased to announce that two new faculty members have joined the Physics Department:

Raúl Briceño

Raúl Briceño was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2013, he received his PhD in Physics from the University of Washington. He then...

Particle Physics Planning Process Moves Into Final Phase

February 15, 2023
Daniel Garisto

Two men walking through a tunnel at the Large Hadron Collider

The future of particle physics in the U.S. hinges on what Hitoshi Murayama, a theoretical particle physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and 30 other members of the Particle Physics Projects Prioritization Panel (P5) decide later this summer.

Last...

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202304/field.cfm

R. Ramesh elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 8, 2022

Photo of R. Ramesh smiling in a blue suit and striped shirt, standing in the lab

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that UC Berkeley engineer and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the 2022 class of NAI...

https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/ramamoorthy-ramesh-elected-to-the-national-…

Eric Ma Awarded Amazon Physical Science Fellowship

December 7, 2022

Eric Ma in a lab

Berkeley Physics is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Eric Ma has been awarded an Amazon Physical Science Fellowship.

This award recognizes three individuals who have shown the skills necessary to bridge the gap between fundamental scientific results in the physical sciences and the development of impactful technologies...

https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/phi-fellows

Drawn to Superconducting Magnets

December 6, 2022
Sarah C.P. Williams

Photo of Physic Chair James Analytis amid research equipment

When a person slides into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine to obtain detailed internal images of their body, they’re in the middle of a giant, powerful, superconducting magnet.

MRI machines— incredibly valuable for diagnosing injury and disease— are only possible because of decades of basic research into these superconducting...

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/heising-simons/jame-analytis/drawn-superconducti…

A Graduate Student's Role in the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 4, 2022
Robert Sanders

Stuart Freedman as a grad student working at an experiment the basement of Birge Hall

In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment that would put to the test one of the most enduring weirdnesses of quantum mechanics, what Einstein...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/10/04/physics-nobel-recognizes-berkeley-experimen…

Seal Storage Technology Partners with Orebi Gann Group

June 9, 2022

Press Release 06/09/22 PR Newswire

Neutrinos originate from some of the most mind-bending elements of the universe: black holes, exploding stars, and the Big Bang. Researchers such as Professor Gabriel Orebi Gann and her group at UC Berkeley are creating a detector to trap these mysterious "ghost particles" to uncover mysteries of the universe. Web3 decentralized cloud storage provider, Seal Storage Technology, is partnering with the Berkeley Orebi Gann Group to provide secure and immutable storage for the neutrino data. The groundbreaking research is not possible without a reliable...

Six Berkeley Faculty Members Elected to NAS

May 22, 2022

Six UC Berkeley faculty members were elected today to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among them are three Physics faculty members: Joel Moore, Joseph Orenstein, and Chung-Pei Ma.

The six were among 120 members and 30 international...