From Lab to Life: Developing Energy Technologies

Ramamoorthy Ramesh serves as Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and pursues a strategic vision for driving technology innovation from first discovery to first commercial use.

In 2011 he served as Director of the SunShot Initiative through the U.S. Department of Energy. In June of 2013, Ramesh joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Deputy Lab Director for Science and Technology.

Ramesh graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1987. He returned to Berkeley in 2004, and was the Plato Malozemoff Chair in Materials Science and Physics 2009-2012. Prior to that, he was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park.