George received his education at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana (BSc. Chemistry 2009), North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro (M.S. Chemistry 2015), Purdue University, and West Lafayette (PhD in Inorganic and Material Chemistry, 2020). The focus of his research is on the design, synthesis, and characterization of metastable materials with electronic and magnetic properties as well as electrochemical energy storage. When not in the lab, he enjoys playing tennis, soccer and board games as well as watching movies.
Francis Alcorn
Dr. Francis Alcorn is a postdoc in the Materials Physics group at Sandia National Labs working on novel scanning electron microscopy (SEM) instrumentation to augment understanding of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, such as recent work on studying MoS2-LaCoO3 interfaces. These include ultrafast electron microscopy to measure fundamental speed limits for semiconductor measurements and secondary electron ‘plume’ imaging for measuring interfacial electric fields that underpin function of semiconductor devices. Dr. Alcorn did his PhD at the University of Illinois, studying atomic scale dynamics in light-absorbing materials with transmission electron microscopy for understanding light-matter interactions
Byoung Ki Choi
Hao-En (Ryan) Lai
Hao-En (Ryan) received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University on 2025, where he worked in the Computational Materials Group under Dr. Perla Balbuena. He earned his B.S.E. from National Taiwan University. His research interests focus on integrating Density Functional Theory (DFT), molecular dynamics, Kinetic Monte Carlo and machine learning to elucidate surface and interfacial transport processes in battery electrolytes and 2D MXene electrocatalysts. As part of ReMIND projects, He will be responsible for understanding ionic and electronic behavior of transition metal oxides that emulate neuronal behavior, using first principles calculations.
Jialu Li
Jialu Li is a researcher at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), specializing in synchrotron-based soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (sXAS) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) techniques. Her work focuses on energy materials, such as catalysts, batteries, and hydrogen storage, as well as neuromorphic materials, aiming to advance sustainable energy solutions and next-generation computing.
Sangheon Oh
Sangheon Oh is a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering at University of California San Diego in 2023. His current research interests are in novel material and novel devices for neuromorphic computing.
Arunabha Mohan Roy
Arunabha’s research interests are computational material science, computational mechanics, phase field method, crystal plasticity modelling, materials design, data-driven model discovery, machine/deep learning, and physics informed neural networks.
Srikrishna Sagar
Srikrishna Sagar’s primary role at NREL is to design, fabricate, and characterize the memory devices using transition-metal coordination complexes. Sagar is focused on achieving low-power switching, followed by probing the charge transport mechanism behind the conductance and/or capacitance switching properties. He’s utilizing the spectrochemical technique to understand the distinct oxidation states and variations in absorbance observed within the complexes to correlate with the obtained current-voltage characteristics obtained from the fabricated two-terminal crossbar molecular devices. His research interests include molecular switching devices, oscillators, and photodetectors.
Elena Salagre Rubio
Dr. Elena Salagre Rubio graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a BSc in Physics and later a MSc and a phD in Condensed Matter Physics, focusing on metal insulator transitions and novel ways of exploring them. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories where she is growing and studying complex oxides, including high entropy oxides that she later utilizes for the fabrication of devices for neuromorphic computing. She is also investigating such devices in terms of their operating mechanisms, comprising current and temperature localization during switching and the role of phase transitions in the material during these processes.
Alejandro Aviles Sanchez
Alex received his Ph.D. in Chemical Science at the Universidad Autónoma de México in 2022. His research interests include neuromorphic materials.