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Alec Talin is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Materials Physics Department at Sandia National Laboratories and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of Science Board of Reviewing Editors. Alec earned a BA degree in Chemistry from UC San Diego in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Los Angeles in 1995. Prior to joining Sandia in 2002, he spent 6 years as a research scientist and manager at Motorola Labs in Phoenix, AZ, and 3 years (2009-12) as a project leader at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.  His seminal scientific achievements include first demonstration of high efficiency Si metal-insulator-semiconductor photocathodes with spillover-assisted evolution of hydrogen, first demonstration of guest-induced electronic conductivity in metal-organic frameworks, and first demonstration of tuning of electronic conductivity of metal oxides and polymers through electrochemical ion insertion for achieving high efficiency analog switches for artificial neural networks.