Matthew (Matt) Whitaker

Matt Whitaker is a Research Associate Professor in the Mineral Physics Institute and Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University and a Partner User Beamline Scientist for the high pressure Multi-Anvil program at the XPD beamline at NSLS-II (MAXPD). He also currently serves as a high pressure Beamline Scientist for beamline 6-BM-B at the APS, and is the PI of the Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science (SEES) Multi-Anvil Facilities Program, which supports the two aforementioned beamlines. Prior to these current appointments, Matt was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan, and then served as High Pressure Beamline Scientist for X17B2 at NSLS-I from 2011 until its closure in 2014. He has been an active synchrotron user for over fifteen years at over fifteen different beamlines at five different synchrotron facilities on three continents. Presently, he is an active user at the HEX, PDF, SRX, TES, XFM, and XPD beamlines at NSLS-II and has served on the NSLS-II UEC starting in 2019. During this time, he co-created and continues to host the wildly popular NSLS-II UEC Show and has worked to increase UEC involvement  across the DOE Light Sources. He is very interested in pursuing multi-modal studies of materials using multiple techniques available at multiple beamlines at NSLS-II.