Hi, I'm Lauren, a materials science postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California Berkeley

Get in touch by email (LaurenWalters@lbl.gov) or LinkedIn 

News

October  2024 Congratulations to Yuxing Fei, Bernardus Rendy, and the Alab team for another exciting paper!

September  2024 Thank you to Stephanie Ribet for an action packed, LBL-wide science hour on micrsocopy!

September 2024 Spent the evening talking about science at the library tonight!

June  2024 Welcome to the team, May! Excited to work on new synthesis science with you.

April  2024 Had a great time presenting at Stanford's MSE Rising Stars series, and meeting faculty and students!

April 2024 Honored to have been able to collaborate  on a new paper on ferromagnetic polar metals!

February 2024 Our paper on anti-anatase molybdenum nitride is out!

October  2023 Filming for PBS NewsHour's NOVA! Check out my lab, and see my 1 second of fame at 6:37.

October 2023 Learning new lab skills! Catch me grinding at work.

August 2023 Honored to help organize this year's Ceder group retreat at Yosemite! Incredible discussions, with breathtaking views to follow!

June 2023 Honored to be hooded by my PhD advisor, Professor James Rondinelli. Happy Graduation!


June 2023 Happy retirement Professor Kraut! Your impact on Northwestern and the Brady Program was tremendous, and you are already missed!

June 2023 Excited to have another paper out with my amazing colleague Chi and coworkers! Check out our work on the synthesis of a new Brownmillerite-type structure.

March 2023 First day at LBL/UCB with the Ceder group! Excited to work on some new science.

January 2023 Last group meeting for MTD group. I'll miss my colleagues and friends at Northwestern!

November 2022 Celebrated National STEM day by successfully defending my PhD in front of family, friends, and colleagues. Thank you for the support!!

October 2022 Fantastic article on NURPH's success this summer. Excited to see the program grow for future years!

September 2022 Excited to be able to attend NEXTPROF 2022 conference in Berkeley!

September 2022 Honored to be invited to present at ISHA's 5th Seminar Virtually on modeling aqueous materials formation.

September 2022 Our work on lead corrosion for legacy water systems was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C!

July 2022 Presenting at the 2022 Solid State Gordon Research Conference and Seminar!

July 2022 Check out our paper about thermodynamic corrosion models, also featured as a supplemental cover, with artwork by the amazing Kristen Wek!

June 2022 I was awarded TA of the Year by Materials Science Student Association. THANK YOU!

June 2022 Excited to have summer NURPH and Coding Club  outreach starting up!

May 2022 Honored to present at the Hilliard Symposium at NU!

May 2022 Presented at Spring MRS in Hawaii. Happy to be back to conferences in person!

May 2022 I was honored with the MRS Graduate Student Silver Award!

May 2022 Guest lectured for UVA's 7080 class on lead predominance diagrams.

March 2022 Excited to present on maximum driving forces at APS' March Meeting in Chicago!

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