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Jeff Blackburn

NREL

Blackburn is an NREL senior scientist, manager of the Materials Physics group, and a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff. He has led Thrusts for several multi-institution centers, including NREL’s BES Solar Photochemistry Core Program, the CHOISE EFRC ‘Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy,’ and NREL’s EERE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence.

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Adelaide Bradicich

[Alumni] Dr. Adelaide Bradicich is a materials scientist with a background in both multiphysics simulation and precise growth of semiconducting materials by MBE. As part of ReMIND, Dr. Bradicich investigated the formation of instable high current density channels in negative differential oxides at Texas A&M as part of the research group of Dr. Patrick Shamberger. Dr. Bradicich was a member of ReMIND EFRC from its inception until 2023, when she completed her Ph.D. studies. From 2023 to present, Dr. Bradicich has been a postdoctoral scholar at Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, where she currently focus on growth and characterization of SiGe quantum dots.

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Daniel Bronner

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Tim Brown

timothy.brown10@okstate.edu

[Alumni] Dr. Timothy D. Brown has an interdisciplinary background in materials and electronic devices, which he uses to characterize, model, and benchmark brain-inspired devices built from nonlinear electrothermal materials. His work focuses on the translation and exploitation of nonlinear dynamical principles to design neuromorphic components like artificial axons and neurons. Timothy Brown was a member of ReMIND as a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National lab from 2022-2025. As of August 2026, he joined Oklahoma State University as an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering.

Kyle Burns

[Alumni] Kyle is a physical inorganic chemist interested in the electrochemical production of hydrogen using bioinspired molecular catalysts. Through use of physical and electroanalytical methods to study the mechanism of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and its inhibition by small molecules such as O2, Kyle hopes to tune the stability and tolerance of these molecular catalysts.

Sarbajeet Chakraborty

sarbajeet1729@tamu.edu

Sarbajeet received his PhD in Chemistry from Texas A&M University, USA, and his M.Sc. Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. His areas of research include the underpinning chemical mechanisms for adjusting the atomic and electronic structure of intercalated metastable polymorphs of V2O5 to design advanced materials for battery cathodes and electrodes for neuromorphic computing. He is particularly interested in dynamic transformations and ion diffusion in correlated systems, with an emphasis on topochemical single-crystal to single-crystal transformations and X-ray diffraction studies.

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Byoung Ki Choi

bkchoi@lbl.gov

Byoung Ki Choi is a researcher at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), specializing in film synthesis using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD), as well as synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). His work focuses on strongly correlated systems, which exhibit phase transitions, charge density waves, topologically non-trivial properties, and many-body interactions. He studies these fundamental physical properties to advance the understanding of materials for neuromorphic devices.

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Jenny Chong

[Alumni] Jenny Chong graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in Materials Science & Engineering in 2023. From 2023 to 2025, Ms. Chong was a master’s student in Prof. Shamberger’s group at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on electro-thermal characterization and compact model simulations interrogating dynamical materials response. As of June 2025, Ms. Chong has been a Quality Engineer at Linde Advanced Materials Technologies.