Anubhav Jain
Anubhav Jain leads a research group studying new materials design using a mix of theory, computing, and artificial intelligence. Jain's group develops, evaluates, and applies models for predicting materials properties to applications such as electrocatalysis, thermoelectrics, solar photovoltaics, energy storage, and more. He is the Associate Director of LBNL's Materials Project program and part of the leadership team of DOE's multi-institution Durable Module Materials consortium. He received his B.E. in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Materials Science & Engineering, and has received numerous awards including the Department of Energy Early Career Award and the LBL Director's Award for Early Scientific Career.
Awards
Early Scientific Career Award: Anubhav Jain - November 18th 2021
For interdisciplinary work in developing software tools and techniques that have made it possible for research groups worldwide to design new functional materials for energy applications through computational screening, and for pioneering work in the field of materials informatics.
DOE Early Career Research Program Award - May 6th 2015
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Anubhav Jain received a $2.5 million financial award from the Early Career Research Program managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Jain is a Research Scientist/Chemist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Technology Area (ETA), where he focuses on new materials discovery using high-throughput computations. He won the award for his project, “Unraveling Principles for Targeted Band Structure Design Using High‐Throughput Computation with Application to Thermoelectrics Materials Discovery.”