{"id":28,"date":"2024-07-29T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:09:46","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uds-hero-md alignfull has-btn-row \" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-8);\"><div class=\"hero-overlay\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1.jpg\" class=\"hero\" alt=\"Graphic background with red, orange and yellow cubes.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1-1024x365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/203\/2024\/07\/shutterstock_175604528-1920x684-1-1536x547.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color\"><span class=\"highlight-gold\">People<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group content is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons btn-row is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1)\">Home<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/research\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1)\">Research<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/people\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1)\">People<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/media-2\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1)\">Media<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-uds-md\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/berkson\/media\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-1)\">Contact Us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor Zach Berkson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Zach Berkson joined SEMTE as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in January, 2024. Following his BSE in Chemical Engineering at ASU in 2013, he earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2018. In 2019 he moved ETH Z\u00fcrich as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, where he received a Spark Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and an ETH Z\u00fcrich Career Seed Award. 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