14 August 2024
Kristin has been named a 2024 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the U.S Department of Energy’s Office of Science!
Welcome to the Persson Group home page. We study the physics and chemistry of materials using atomistic computational methods and high-performance computing technology.
The Materials Project
Kristin speaks at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
The Electrolyte Genome
A big data approach in battery materials discovery
Elastic and Piezoelectric Tensors
Towards an open database of computed mechanical and electrical properties of solids
Artificial Photosynthesis
A collaboration with experimentalists to evaluate corrosion mechanisms
Group retreat to Half-Moon Bay
Hanging out on the beach
Group bonding
Chatting around a fire
We focus on materials for energy applications, such as battery electrode materials, electrolytes, photocatalysts, thermoelectrics, etc.
News
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14 March 2024
Guy (Persson Group) and Nathan (Ceder Group) were awarded the inaugural 2023 Didier de Fontaine Student Award in Theory and Computation offered by the UC Berkeley MSE Department!
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27 February 2024
Kristin has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its 2024 Class for Chemistry!
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22 March 2023
Kristin has been named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society!
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