Peter Fischer received his Ph.D. in Physics (Dr.rer.nat.) from the Technical University in Munich, Germany in 1993 on pioneering work with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in rare earth systems. Since 2004 he has been with the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA. He is Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Non-Equilibrium Magnetic Materials Program. His research program is focused on the use of polarized synchrotron radiation for the study of fundamental problems in magnetism.

Sinéad Griffin received her PhD from ETH Zürich in 2014. From 2015-18 she was an SNF postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, becoming staff scientist in both the Molecular Foundry and the Materials Science Division in 2018. Griffin received the Swiss Physical Society Award for General Physics in 2017 and a Berkeley Lab Early Career LDRD in 2018. She is also actively involved in promoting science in Africa, and since 2010 has lectured throughout the continent as part of the African School on Electronic Structure: Theory and Applications (ASESMA).

As Senior Business Manager for the CSD/MSD Joint Division Office, Teresa (Terry) Calarco oversees finance and business processes, buildings, and safety for the Materials Sciences Division and the Chemical Sciences Division. She is actively involved in the joint CSD/MSD Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability (IDEA) committee, Berkeley Lab’s APS-IDEA committee (part of the American Physical Society IDEA network), and represents MSD on Berkeley Lab’s Women’s Support and Empowerment Council (WSEC). Prior to joining the lab, Terry was an R&D operations executive in the Biotech/BioPharma industry. She has a degree in Molecular Biology from UC Berkeley.