Presenter

Dula Parkinson is the Deputy for Photon Science Operations and the Program Lead for Diffraction and Imaging at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After completing a PhD in physical chemistry at UC Berkeley in 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Carolyn Larabell, using soft X-ray nano-tomography to collect 3D images of single cells. In 2010, he became a beamline scientist at the ALS, leading the Hard X-ray micro-Tomography program at Beamline 8.3.2, working with ALS users to image a variety of samples. He has been a proud user of NERSC since 2010. Since that time he has been involved in efforts to connect experimental and computational facilities and provide users with access to powerful computing and data management resources through intuitive interfaces.