Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2026 cohort of scientists and engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Cyclotron Road is one of four nodes in the DOE Office of Technology Commercialization’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). Now in its twelfth year, Cyclotron Road supports innovators as they take the leap from discovery to product development and launch their own companies.

As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data running 24/7.

Annual Berkeley Lab data visualization slide deck illustrates over 2,000 gigawatts of generation and storage capacity active in U.S. interconnection queues Generator interconnection queues across the U.S. are showing some signals of improvement as historical backlogs wane and the volume of newly executed interconnection agreements rises, though process timelines remain long.

Advancing high-field superconducting magnet technologies critical to making magnetic confinement fusion smaller, more efficient, and more viable by improving magnet performance and reliability. Developing and running exascale-scale simulations on the world’s largest supercomputers to enable high-fidelity modeling of complex plasma, beam, and fusion-relevant physics.

Severe storms, freezes, floods, and heat waves can damage grid infrastructure and cause extended power outages, and the risks of utility equipment igniting wildfires is increasing. States and utilities are aiming to reduce the impact of these threats, while keeping down electricity costs. Addressing this challenge requires harmonizing siloed planning processes to balance grid resilience with other fundamental energy objectives such as affordability, reliability, safety, and serving new loads.

To harness biological systems (plants and microbes) for next-generation energy production and advanced materials, researchers are looking to beneficial plant-microbe interactions. Because these are complex systems, it has proven difficult to reproducibly control exactly which microbes are present. And, subtle differences in materials, methods, or even the hands of the researchers themselves can lead to inconsistent results.

Chiral 2D metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are among the most promising materials for future technologies that exploit the spin of electrons in spin-based optoelectronics or spintronics, but getting them to perform consistently has proven difficult. Now scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a data-driven approach that identifies and models key synthesis parameters to optimize their performance.

Position Overview Seeking two Graduate Student Research Assistants (GSRA) to join the Energy Markets and Planning (EMP) department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

We invite you to a webinar on July 1 at 10:00 AM Pacific exploring interesting recent trends and patterns in transmission value using Berkeley Lab’s just-launched interactive data visualization tool (https://emp.lbl.gov/energy-market-value-tool-stage-1-transmission-value). The tool is designed to help stakeholders explore transmission market value data and analysis from two studies, a study published in Nature Communications and a report supporting the National Transmission Needs Study.

Webinar series facilitates conversations on interconnection study methods and opportunities for automation and harmonization across different regions of the U.S. Berkeley Lab in collaboration with the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) and Elevate Energy Consulting, is facilitating the Studies, Tools, and Interconnection Consistency and Harmonization (STITCH) Meetings as part of the DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) initiative.