[1][2][3] He has a joint appointment as a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In 2017 Gerbrand Ceder was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, "For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology.

Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 25 years, after which he moved back to the U. C. Berkeley, where he remains.

[6] In 2014, Jinhyuk Lee and Gerbrand Ceder demonstrated that when the Li content surpasses the percolation threshold, disordered rocksalt structures can deliver high discharge capacity (>300 mAh/g) and energy density (>1000 Wh/kg).

Most of Ceder's works involve the use of first-principles based computaional methods for understanding the atomic scale mechanism and design prinicples of conductors.

[11] In 2022, Gerbrand Ceder, Yan Zheng, Bin Ouyang, and co-authors demonstrated another mechanism for boosting ionic conductivity in oxide conductors.

The authors showed how high-entropy compositions in Na super ionic conductor (NASICON) material and garnets can create local structural distortions that enhance alkali ion mobility.

[16] Gerbrand Ceder has also made contributions in experimental efforts to identify failure mechanisms associated with solid-state electrolyte production.

[17] In November 2023, Ceder and colleagues introduced A-Lab, an autonomous laboratory for inorganic powder synthesis, integrating computations, machine learning, and robotics.

[18] The work garnered significant attention[19][20] based on the claim it successfully synthesized 41 out of 58 novel compounds, primarily oxides and phosphates, over 17 days.

The A-lab used graph neural networks trained on computational materials databases and literature-trained natural language models for initial synthesis recipe proposals, optimized through active learning based on thermodynamics.

Prior to the preprint criticism by Palgrave online[22] was addressed by Ceder in a LinkedIn post refuting many critiques made against the A-lab paper.

[26] In 2017, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for "For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology".