About Greg

Biography

Greg is a staff scientist in the Materials Sciences Division and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Greg grew up in Massachusetts and obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from UMass Amherst in 2010. He was first introduced to the exciting world of polymers through his undergraduate research on tuning polymer adhesion with functionalized nanoparticles in Al Crosby's group in the Polymer Science & Engineering Department. Greg then moved to California to pursue his PhD in the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara with Prof. Michael Chabinyc and the late Prof. Ed Kramer. His graduate research focused on elucidating connections among chemistry, morphology, and transport in thin film organic electronics. After graduate school, Greg was a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Chemical Sciences Division and the Advanced Light Source where he studied nanoscale morphology in ion-conducting polymer membranes and gas adsorption mechanisms in nanoporous frameworks. In addition to science, Greg enjoys the outdoors, particularly rock climbing in areas like Bishop and Tahoe, practicing the piano, and cooking.

2015  PhD in Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara

2010  B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2024  Berkeley Lab Director's Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement 

2024  ACS Applied Polymer Materials Early Career Forum

2020  Berkeley Lab Energy Sciences Area Early Career Development LDRD Award

2015  DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Fellowship

2015  American delegate of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

2015  Advanced Light Source Neville B. Smith Student Poster Award

2014  Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship

2013  APS FGSA Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research

2012  5th Synchrotron Radiation in Polymer Science Conference Poster Award

2010  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

2009  Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship