Summary: Strong AMO and quantum-sensing presence (Stamper-Kurn ultracold atoms, Budker precision magnetometry legacy ties) plus tight coupling to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab across the street.
Notes: Excellent access to LBNL cleanrooms and beamlines; large, diverse postdoc community.
Warnings: Bay Area housing costs are punishing on a postdoc salary; commute from affordable areas can exceed an hour.
Liu develops quantitative susceptibility mapping and other advanced magnetic-field-sensitive MRI acquisition and reconstruction methods to noninvasively map brain iron, myelin, and microstructure with a precision that approaches magnetometric sensing of tissue magnetic properties.
Maharbiz pioneered millimeter- and sub-millimeter-scale 'neural dust' motes that use ultrasonic power and backscatter telemetry for wireless, batteryless neural and physiological sensing, alongside other micro/nanoscale bioelectronic interfaces.
Marriott engineers reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent and bioluminescent proteins and uses optical lock-in detection to achieve high-contrast, super-resolution imaging of specific proteins deep within scattering tissue.
McKinsey develops ultra-low-background noble-liquid (xenon and argon) time-projection chambers for direct dark matter detection, including leadership roles on LZ, and works on quantum-sensor readout of scintillation and ionization signals to push detection thresholds toward single-quantum sensitivity.
Miller designs synthetic VoltageFluor-class fluorescent dyes that report membrane potential with millisecond time resolution in neurons and other excitable cells, providing an optical alternative to patch-clamp electrophysiology for large-scale voltage imaging.
Minor directs the National Center for Electron Microscopy at LBNL and develops in-situ TEM methods to observe how materials deform, fracture, and transform under mechanical load, temperature, and other stimuli in real time at atomic resolution.
Mueller's group performs light-pulse atom interferometry at extreme precision to test the equivalence principle, measure the fine-structure constant, and search for new physics, developing techniques (large momentum transfer, squeezed-atom methods) that also underlie compact atom-interferometric gravimeters and gyroscopes. The lab is actively recruiting postdocs.
Muller designs wireless, miniaturized CMOS integrated circuits for closed-loop neural recording and stimulation (including the WAND platform), pushing implantable bioelectronic sensing toward fully autonomous, battery-free operation.
Murch studies continuous quantum measurement and feedback control in superconducting circuit QED systems, including some of the earliest experiments resolving quantum backaction and weak-value amplification, work directly relevant to the quantum limits of continuous sensing and metrology.
Parsons directs Berkeley's Radio Astronomy Laboratory and leads instrumentation development for the HERA 21-cm interferometric array, engineering the low-noise, precisely calibrated radio receiver systems needed to detect the faint cosmological 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization.