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Robert William Schoenlein

Robert William Schoenlein PhD

Physiology and Biophysics, Molecular Biology
Menlo Park, California, United States of America

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Dr. Schoenlein is the Deputy Director for Science at the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and is a P.I. in the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC. His research interests are in the application of ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques to investigate atomic and electronic structural dynamics in condensed matter including transition-metal complexes, molecular dynamics in solution, and electronic phase transitions in correlated electron systems.

Prior to joining SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2015, Dr. Schoenlein was a Senior Staff Scientist at LBNL with research programs in the Chemical Sciences and Materials Sciences Divisions. He also served as the Deputy Director for Science at the Advanced Light Source, and as scientific lead for the Next Generation Light Source Initiative at LBNL. Dr. Schoenlein received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America.
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