Category: News

Professor Ceder to Lead New Genesis Mission Project

Professor Ceder is proud to lead a new Genesis Mission project on autonomous laboratories at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, alongside co-PIs Kristin Persson, Anubhav Jain, Peter Ercius, and Ju Li of MIT. Read more...

Shilong receives 2025-2026 Vedensky Award

Graduate student Shilong Wang is the recipient of the 2025-2026 Vedensky Award. This award is given to students specializing in process metallurgy and mineral dressing (or related fields) in the Department of Materials Science...

Prof. Ceder receives Energy Storage Materials (ENSM) Award

Congratulations to Professor Ceder, who was awarded the Energy Storage Materials (ENSM) Award! The Energy Storage Materials Award recognizes an outstanding scientist whose work shows impressive innovation and who has made significant contributions to the...

A-Lab paper published in Nature, featured in news stories

Today, Nature published a journal article written by Mark Peplow featuring the autonomous laboratory (A-lab) in the Ceder group, which was used in collaboration with Google DeepMind’s AI system for novel materials discovery (GNoME)...

Professor Ceder interviewed on breakthrough DRX technology

On September 15, KCBS Radio: On-Demand interviewed Professor Gerbrand Ceder on the development of the material “disordered rock salt,” or DRX. They discuss current limitations in electric vehicle batteries, the history of DRX, the...

DRX Consortium Featured in Berkeley Lab Article

Professor Ceder and the DRX Consortium was recently featured in a Berkeley Lab article by Theresa Duque. The DRX Consortium, co-led by Professor Ceder and LBNL battery scientist Guoying Chen, brings together the nation’s...

A-Lab featured in Popular Science, Science

The autonomous laboratory for solid-state synthesis (A-Lab) in the Ceder group continues to garner widespread attention. Popular Science recently published an article on the A-Lab, written by Jamie Dickman, noting the similarity between the...