Eli Rotenberg is an American physicist. He works at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron, [1] and was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his work in photoemission spectroscopy. [2]
Rotenberg studied at Cornell University, and obtained a BS in 1987. He conducted his PhD studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated in 1993 with a thesis entitled "The Relationship Between Structure and Core-Level Shifts in Thin Epitaxial Films of CaF2 and SrF2 on Si(111)". [3] His thesis advisor was Marjorie Olmstead. Rotenberg then moved to the University of Oregon for postdoctoral work. In 1996, he became a staff scientist at ALS at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has continued to work as of 2025. [1] In this position, he serves as the project leader of the MAESTRO (Microscopic and Electronic STRucture Observatory) [4] beamline.