Institutions

200 California Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | C. Liu MRI Physics Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | Maharbiz Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Bioengineering | Marriott Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | McKinsey Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology | E. Miller Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Materials Science and Engineering | Minor Group (National Center for Electron Microscopy) @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | H. Mueller Atom Interferometry Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | R. Muller Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | Murch Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.

Department(s)/lab(s): Astronomy | Parsons Radio Astronomy Lab @ UCB
Summary:

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.