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Andi Barbour

CHX & C2QA Scientist, Complex scattering, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Andi Barbour

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room 117
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3895
(631) 599-8500
 abarbour@bnl.gov

Pronouns: she, her, hers

The central theme of Andi Barbour’s scientific career is connecting nanoscale structure and dynamics to the macroscopic behavior of materials. Across surfaces, interfaces, and bulk systems, she has used a broad suite of X-ray techniques for more than a decade to investigate materials in the context of fundamental science.

Andi is now a beamline scientist at the Coherent Hard X-ray (CHX) beamline at NSLS-II, where she focuses on materials challenges relevant to functional quantum materials and on developing experimental and computational methods that accelerate discovery. Within the BNL-led Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), where she serves as a co-Principal Investigator, Andi leads research efforts on superconducting qubits and diamond NV centers, while also building new collaborations and bringing new users to NSLS-II to expand the center’s scientific reach.

Education | Appointments

Education

  • Postdoctoral Appointee, X-ray Scattering Group, Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory.  Supervisor: Hoydoo You
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry with a concentration in Chemical Physics, University of Tennesse at Knoxville. Supervisor: J.Z. Larese
  • B.S. in Chemistry, North Carolina State University

Professional Appointments

ROLES:

  • Co-PI Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (2021 to present)
  • Authorized beamline staff for the CSX beamline (2015 to 2025)
  • Interim Group Leader for Scientific Information Systems within DSSI Division (2024 to 2025)
  • Co-PI of Laboratory Directed Research and Development effort for AI-ML guided analysis of coherent scattering data (2020-2023)
  • Supervisor of Technical and Professional Research Support Staff for the Soft X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy program (2018 - 2024)

COMMITTEES:

  • International Advisory Committee of the Coherence Conference (2025 to present)
  • Peer Review Committee for the Canadian Light Source (2019 to present)
  • NSLS-II DSSI Advisory Committee (2022 to present)
  • NSLS-II Radiation Safety Committee (2017 to present)
Andi Barbour

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room 117
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3895
(631) 599-8500
 abarbour@bnl.gov

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