Ashley White
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ashley White is the interim deputy for strategy and director of communications for the Advanced Light Source, a U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Science synchrotron light source user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In these roles, she draws on her background as a materials researcher and science policy advisor to inform science strategy and convey key accomplishments to current and potential facility users and the science research community, federal funders and policymakers, and the general public.
Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, she served as an MRS/OSA Congressional Science & Engineering Fellow working in the office of U.S. Senator Al Franken and in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She also previously managed the materials research program at the U.S. Green Building Council. She received a PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge, and a BS and BA in materials science and engineering and music, respectively, from Virginia Tech. She is a past recipient of the MRS Woody White Service Award. White’s MRS volunteer activities include serving as a meeting chair for the upcoming 2023 MRS Spring Meeting, chairing the Focus on Sustainability subcommittee, and serving on the editorial advisory board of MRS Energy & Sustainability.