Ernie came to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where as a Program Officer he made grants supporting basic research across a wide range of physical sciences, with particular emphasis on quantum materials and fundamental physics. Prior to his time at the Moore Foundation, Ernie had a career at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he worked as a staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source and helped pioneer techniques that use x-rays to visualize how matter evolves on the natural (Angstrom) length and (femtosecond) time scales relevant to...Read more
