Many people are involved in developing and expanding the scientific and user programs at the ALS. Members of the committees listed below are either appointed or elected by the user community and/or by ALS or Berkeley Lab management to provide a wide base of communication on issues concerning all aspects of ALS operations and development.
The ALS Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) is responsible for conveying the concerns and interests of users to ALS management. Members are elected annually by ALS users. To contact a member of the UEC, please email alsuec@lbl.gov.
The current members of the committee (with terms), as of January 1, 2016, are
David Shuh, chair (2013-2016)
Chemical Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Monika Blum, vice chair (2015-2017)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Chris Cappa, past chair (2013-2015)
University of California, Davis
William Chueh (2015-2017)
Stanford University
Brian Collins, secretary (2014-2016)
Washington State University
Tanja Cuk (2014-2016)
University of California, Berkeley
Micky Holcomb, user awards (2014-2016)
West Virginia University
Michael Makowski, student representative, user awards (2015-2016)
University of California, Irvine
Fanny Rodolakis, user meeting organizer (2016-2018)
Argonne National Laboratory
Andreas Scholl, poster competition (2014-2016)
Advanced Light Source Division, Berkeley Lab
Alessandro Sepe (2015-2017)
University of Cambridge, UK
Robert Streubel, user meeting organizer (2016-2018)
Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Tyler Troy, NUFO representative (2014-2016)
Chemical Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Lin Wang (2016-2018)
Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research, China
The ALS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) advises Berkeley Lab and ALS management on issues relating to ALS operations, resource allocation, strategic planning, and Participating Research Team (PRT) proposals and performance. Current members of the committee, as of January 2016, are
Lou Terminello (chair)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Harald Ade
North Carolina State University
David L. Brown
Berkeley Lab
George Crabtree
Argonne National Laboratory
Tom Devereaux
SLAC and Stanford University
Robert Hettel
SLAC
Peter Johnson (ex officio, PSP chair)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Satish Myneni
Princeton University
Jeff Neaton
Berkeley Lab
Christoph Quitmann
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University
David Shuh (ex officio, 2016 UEC chair)
Berkeley Lab
Janet Smith
University of Michigan
Two Proposal Study Panels (PSPs) exist at the ALS: one for the general sciences and one for structural biology. The role of the PSPs is described in User Policy.
Note: Users are urged NOT to contact any members of the panels directly.
Current members of the general sciences PSP, as of April 2016, are
- Masa Fukuto, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Carol Hirschmugl, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Peter Johnson (chair), Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Apurva Mehta, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Alexander Moewes, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- Mark Rivers, University of Chicago
- Oleg Shpyrko, University of California, San Diego
- Craig Taatjes, Sandia National Laboratory
- Yayoi Takamura, University of California, Davis
- Brandy Toner, University of Minnesota
- Stefan Vajda, Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University
- Tony van Buuren, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Current members of the Structural Biology PSP, as of February 2014, are
- Jeff Abramson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Greg Bowman, Johns Hopkins University
- Russ Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
- James Fraser, University of California, San Francisco
- Elsa Garcin, University of Maryland
- Daniel Gewirth, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
- Martin Horvath, University of Utah
- James L. Keck, University of Wisconsin
- Choel Kim, Baylor College of Medicine
- Markos Koutmos, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Karolin Luger, Colorado State University
- Ian MacRae, The Scripps Institute
- Ethan Merritt, University of Washington
- Daniel Minor, University of California, San Francisco
- Jens Preben Morth, University of Oslo
- Rebecca Page, Brown University
- Edvin Pozharski, University of Maryland
- Glen Spraggon, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
- Steve Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Ron Stenkamp, University of Washington
- Simone Weyand, Medical Research Council, UK