Leadership


Mark Rivers
Chief Technology Officer and Beamline Scientist
The University of Chicago
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Emily Padston
Associate Director for Education, Outreach, and Community Engagement
The University of Chicago
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Current Members of the Executive Committee

Katherine Armstrong
Beamline Scientist
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
University of California Santa Cruz
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Maryjo Brounce
User Group Committee Representative
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California, Riverside
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Bin Chen
User Group Committee Representative
Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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Russell Hemley
Subaward PI (UIC) and Facility Director at National Synchrotron Light Source-II
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois Chicago
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Joanne Stubbs
Beamline Scientist and Facility Director at Advanced Photon Source
GSECARS
The University of Chicago
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Brandy Toner
Subaward PI (University of Minnesota) and Facility Director at Advanced Light Source
Department of Soil, Water and Climate
University of Minnesota
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Yanbin Wang
Beamline Scientist at Advanced Photon Source
GSECARS
The University of Chicago
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Sam Webb
Beamline Scientist and Facility Director at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Precourt Institute for Energy
Stanford University
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Donald Weidner
Subaward Co-PI (Stony Brook University)
Mineral Physics Institute; Department of Geosciences
Stony Brook University
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Matthew L. Whitaker
Subaward PI (Stony Brook University) and Beamline Scientist
Mineral Physics Institute; Department of Geosciences
Stony Brook University
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Quentin Williams
Subaward PI (UC Santa Cruz) and Facility Director at Advanced Light Source
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
University of California Santa Cruz
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