Kristin Persson

Kristin Aslaug Persson
Alma mater	Lund Institute of Technology Royal Institute of Technology
Known for	Materials Project, data-driven materials design
Scientific career
Fields	Materials science Chemistry Physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thesis	Thermodynamical and Dynamical Instabilities from Ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculations  (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Prof. Göran Grimvall
Website	perssongroup.lbl.gov

Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius ^[1] and Einar Benedikt Olafsson.^{[2] [3]} She is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.^[4] Between 2020-2024, she served as the director of the Molecular Foundry,^[5] a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the director and founder of the Materials Project,^[6] a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials. Her research group^[7] focuses on the data-driven computational design and prediction of new materials for clean energy production and storage applications. In 2024, Persson was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in the class of Chemistry. ^[8]