# Group Jobs (Fall 2025)

## <mark style="color:blue;">Administrative</mark>

| **Desk Manager:** Assign desk spaces at LBL and on campus                                                                                                                                                  | Bryant Li         |
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| **Onboarding Guide (Grads):** Assist new graduate students in getting started at LBL; create & manage onboarding resources and welcome events. Adding new members to the google group/slack channels       | Mackinzie Farnell |
| **Onboarding Guide (Postdocs/Staff):** Assist new postdocs/staff in getting started at LBL, create & manage onboarding resources and welcome events. Adding new members to the google group/slack channels | Mona Abdelgaid    |
| **Seminar Scheduler:** Maintain schedule for "big" group meetings; schedule additional talks/seminars that may benefit the group                                                                           | Roberta Pascazio  |

## <mark style="color:purple;">Infrastructure</mark>

| *Job*                                                                                                                                                                          | *Name(s)*                                                                      |
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| **Group Librarian:** Manage group handbook, Google Drive, and educational resources                                                                                            | Matthew Liu, Jaemin Yoo                                                        |
| **Group Supplier:** Maintain group printer and regular resupply toner; manage Slack Pro subscription for *PerssonHuddle* workspace                                             | Hongqian Zheng (printer), Yinhe Wang (printer) Wayne Zhao (slack subscription) |
| **Group Webmaster:** Update the Persson Group public website (+publications), keep group roster on google drive up to date                                                     | Vir Karan                                                                      |
| **MP MatSci / public docs Manager:** Make sure that answers from matsci.org community forum are regularly transferred back to the docs + check that MP's wiki is in good shape | Patrick Huck and Aaron Kaplan                                                  |
| **MP Swag Coordinator:** Coordinate the design and ordering of MP swag, including t-shirts, mugs, etc.                                                                         | Prathami Kamath                                                                |
| **Production Gatekeeper:** Assist with production jobs and group data management                                                                                               | Tyler Mathis and Patrick Huck, MP staff as needed                              |
| **Publications Manager:** Assist HR in compiling publications for reports (mostly for MP reporting)                                                                            | Aaron Kaplan                                                                   |
| **Workstation Manager**: Assist Kristin in managing the workstation inventory allotted from MSD and ETA. Keep track of laptops (LBL/Berkeley) and large assets with a DOE tag  | Nagappan Nataraja Chockalingam, Wilma Rishko                                   |

## <mark style="color:orange;">Computing</mark>

| *Job*                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | *Name(s)*                                                                                                                                                      |
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| **Builder Guru:** Manage database builders (Emmet); train new people in builders                                                                                                                                                 | Tyler Mathis and Karlo Berket                                                                                                                                  |
| **NERSC Resource Manager:** Distribute computing time, monitor/plan group usage, submit annual proposals for compute time, and manage user access to the matgen, m4889, and astra allocations, project directories and resources | Rohith Srinivaas Mohanakrishnan (matgen) and Nagappan Nataraja Chockalingam (matgen); Roberta Pascazio (esra); Aaron Kaplan (m4889) and Colin Bundschu (m4889) |
| **NREL Point of Contact:** Monitor computing time, write NREL HPC proposals, and interface with NREL staff                                                                                                                       | Nessa Majaya (silimorphous and drxkp), Rohith Srinivaas Mohanakrishnan (drxkap), Bryant Li (bmrkp), and Nagappan Nataraja Chockalingam (nakp)                  |
| **Savio/Lawrencium Support:** Manage accounts, assist users with job/system setup                                                                                                                                                | Bryant Li, Aaron Kaplan, and Mona Abdelgaid                                                                                                                    |

## <mark style="color:green;">Extracurriculars</mark>

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="209">Job</th><th>Names</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><em>Job</em></td><td><em>Name(s)</em></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Group Chef:</strong> Provide food/snacks for the group; work with other chefs to cover food for 1) group meetings, 2) group time, 3) communal snacks/coffee</td><td>Wayne Zhao, Galio Guo, Jaemin Yoo, and Wilma Rishko</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Kavli Representative:</strong> Attend Kavli ENSI meetings once per month, prepare materials for distribution/presentation at Kavli events, facilitate collaborations between Kavli member groups, assist students in applying to Kavli awards and fellowships</td><td>Max Gallant</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Social Chairs:</strong> Plan major group outings &#x26; retreat, schedule annual group photo</td><td>Max Gallant, Vir Karan, Oliver Hvidsten</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BearBuy and Ebuy coordinators:</strong> help with purchasing equipment through UCB and LBNL procurement sites + maintaining docs for these</td><td>Wayne Zhao (BearBuy) and Jihye Park (Ebuy)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>ERSO and TREX help</strong>: help with travel auth / reimbursement through ERSO and TREX</td><td>Prathami Kamath (ERSO) and Roberta Pascazio (TREX)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>MicroContribs Approval:</strong> handling approvals for MP's micro contributions, including reading cited literature to check submissions</td><td>Eymana Maria</td></tr></tbody></table>

## <mark style="color:orange;background-color:yellow;">Deprecated Group Jobs</mark>

| Job                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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| **Alumni Relations Officer**: create and administer exit surveys to departing group members, maintain contact information for alumni, manage alumni social network group (e.g., LinkedIn), and invite alumni to give talks |
| **Matsci.org Moderator**: Ensure timely response to questions on the Matsci.org forums (e.g.,                                                                                                                              |