Principle Investigator

Jacklyn Gates is the Heavy Element Group Leader at Berkeley Lab. She has over 15 years of experience in experimental nuclear physics with a specialization in the production, chemistry and nuclear structure of superheavy elements.

Graduate Student

John is a second year PhD student in Nuclear Engineering. He graduated from Berkeley with a bachelors in physics. He is interested in super heavy elements, nuclear structure and spectroscopy.

Graduate Student

Mirza is a PhD student in Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley, coming in with a masters degree in chemistry from the Technical University of Munich and bachelors from the University of Sarajevo. His research focuses on the chemical properties of the heaviest elements of the periodic table.

Scientific Staff

Erich studies fundamental, ground-state properties of atoms and their nuclei under extreme conditions of nuclear matter. His particular focus is on bridging AMO techniques to the challenges of rare and radioactive isotope sciences, especially those related to ion trapping and precision measurements. Currently, he leads the efforts to establish a new high precision mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy program for heavy and superheavy isotopes at the BGS. Additionally, he frequently takes part in scientific investigations in other laboratories around the world, such as TRIUMF (Canada), FRIB (USA), LAFN-USP (Brazil) and CERN (Switzerland).

Postdoc

Marilena obtained her PhD in physics at UBC/TRIUMF performing high precision mass measurements of neutron-rich Mg and Na isotopes in the island of inversion via MR-ToF mass spectrometry. She is now a postdoc in the heavy element group contributing in new element searches and developing a novel detector for the detection of exotic decay modes of superheavy elements.

Scientific Staff

Rodney received his PhD from McGill University in 2018 for conducting precision mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei relevant to the astrophysical r process using the Canadian Penning Trap mass spectrometer at Argonne National Lab. He is now a part of the heavy elements group working towards the implementation of an MR-TOF device for studying the nuclear physics properties of rare heavy elements through mass and laser-spectroscopy measurements.

Scientist Staff

Jennifer Pore's research interests are at the intersections of chemistry and nuclear physics. Presently she has been focused on new isotope discoveries, spectroscopy measurements, and chemical measurements utilizing nuclear reactions.

Senior Staff Scientist

Mark has been at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 35 years and has a broad range of research interests including heavy element chemistry and physics, laser fusion research, nuclear structure research, nuclear reaction research, radioactive beam generation and utilization, fission studies, and radiochemical diagnostic development.