Kristin Persson

Kristin A. Persson is a Swedish American physicist and chemist. She is a Faculty Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is also the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the Director and Co-Founder of the Materials Project, a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials.
Education.
Persson holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden and completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden in 2001, under the supervision of . After her Ph.D., she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate from 2001 to 2007.