Mike Whittaker is a research scientist in the Energy Geoscience Division (EGD) in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) and an affiliate in the department of Earth and Planetary Science (EPS) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). He received BS/MS degrees from the University of Utah in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 with advisor Derk Joester. Mike worked as a postdoc in the nanogeoscience group in EGD from 2017-2020 with Benjamin Gilbert and with Jill Banfield at UCB. He is the Co-Founder and Director of LiRRIC, the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center at LBL.
Area of Interest
- Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Education
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering|Northwestern University, Evanston, United States|2016
