Institutions

1 Cyclotron Rd
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

Summary: Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provide unmatched synchrotron and nanofabrication resources for precision-sensing and quantum-materials research.

Notes: Extremely tight integration with UC Berkeley; large postdoc community with strong mentorship networks.

Warnings: Bay Area cost of living is very high relative to federal postdoc pay scales.

Department(s)/lab(s): Chemistry | Fleming Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab @ UCB
Summary:

Fleming pioneered two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and used it to reveal long-lived quantum coherences in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, work that reframed how energy transfer efficiency in natural and artificial light-harvesting systems is understood.

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): Materials Science and Engineering | M. Scott Electron Microscopy Lab @ UCB
Summary:

Scott uses and develops 4D-STEM (scanning nanobeam electron diffraction) and other advanced electron-microscopy modalities, including energy-filtered techniques, to map short-range structural order and local diffraction signatures in quantum and semiconductor materials at the nanoscale.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | Siddiqi Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory (QNL) @ UCB
Summary:

Siddiqi's Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory develops superconducting quantum circuits and near-quantum-limited parametric amplifiers for qubit readout, quantum feedback, and quantum-enhanced sensing, and directs cross-campus quantum information efforts at Berkeley and LBNL.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Physics | Sipahigil Berkeley Quantum Devices Group @ UCB
Summary:

Sipahigil leads the Berkeley Quantum Devices Group, which integrates diamond and silicon-carbide color-center spin qubits with nanophotonic cavities to build quantum networks and solid-state quantum sensors, spanning superconducting circuits to color-center-based quantum memories. The group is actively recruiting postdocs.

Department(s)/lab(s): Materials Science and Engineering | H. Zheng Group (LBNL) @ UCB
Summary:

Zheng develops in-situ liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy to directly observe nanocrystal nucleation, growth, and chemical transformation in solution with nanometer spatial and sub-second temporal resolution, capturing dynamic processes invisible to static microscopy.