Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius and Einar Benedikt Olafsson. She is a Faculty Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is also the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the Director and Co-Founder of the Materials Project, a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials. Her research group focuses on the data-driven computational design and prediction of new materials for clean energy production and storage applications.