Benjamin Gilbert
Benjamin Gilbert obtained a B.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in 1994 and a Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2000. His graduate research was based upon synchrotron x-ray spectromicroscopy studies at the Synchrotron Radiation Center of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, for which he received the SRC Aladdin Lamp Award. He performed post-doctoral research at UW – Madison and the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2004, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founded (with colleagues Jill Banfield and Glenn Waychunas) the Berkeley Nanogeoscience Center. In April 2007, he was promoted to a career scientist position.
Area of Interest
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
- Materials Engineering
- Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Education
- PhD|École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland|1999
