Group Members

Staff Scientists

Vincent Wang

Joined 2024

shw062@ucsd.edu

Postdoctoral Scholars

Eric Yang

Joined 2024

esy001@ucsd.edu

Graduate Students

Ritchie Hernandez

6th Year Graduate Student

reh012@ucsd.edu

Adam Grippo

6th Year Graduate Student

agrippo@ucsd.edu

Sean Dunphy

4th Year Graduate Student

sdunphy@ucsd.edu

Erin Lewis

1st Year Graduate Student

e1lewis@ucsd.edu

William Lin

1st Year Graduate Student

wel093@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Students

Carmen Lopez

Class of 2026

Former Members

Liezel A. Labios (B.S. Stanford University) – Ph.D. 2012.

Public Information Officer, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering (2015 – Present)

 

Matthew D. Millard (B.S. Northern Florida University) – Ph.D. 2013.

Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage (2014 – Present)

 

Treffly B. Ditri (B.S. Wayne State University) – Ph.D. 2014

Senior Scientist, SPARWAR Inc, (2018 – Present)

 

Stephen P. George (B.S. California State University, San Marcos) – Ph.D. 2014    

Chemical Hygiene Safety Officer, UCSD Department of Chem/Biochem (2014 – Present)

 

Alex E. Carpenter (B.S. Bowdoin College) – Ph.D. 2015

Senior Engineer, Tesla Inc. (2020 – Present)

 

Brandon R. Barnett (B.S. Pepperdine University) – Ph.D. 2016

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester (2021 – Present)

 

Charles C. Mokhtarzadeh (B.S. UC Santa Barbara) – Ph.D. 2017

Research Chemist, Intel Corporation, Portland OR (9/2017 – Present)

 

Douglas W. Agnew (B.S. Reed College) ­– Ph.D. 2017

Process Engineer, LAM Research Inc., Portland OR (2017 – Present)

 

Kyle A. Mandla – (B.S. Indiana University) ­– Ph.D. 2018

Senior Staff Chemist, Element BioSciences Inc. (2020 – Present)

 

Chinglin Chan – (B.S. NTH University, Taiwan) – Ph.D. 2020

Chemist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (2020 – Present)

 

Myles J. Drance – (B.S. Colgate University) – Ph.D. 2020

Postdoc, Radosevich Lab, MIT (2020 – Present)

 

Alejandra Arroyave – (B.S. Florida State University) – Ph.D. 2021

Postdoc, Heterogeneous Catalysis Group, Argonne National Laboratory (2021 – Present)

Michael Neville – (B.S. University of New Mexico) – Ph.D. 2022

Senior Scientist, Illumina Inc. (2022 Present)

Krista Balto – (B.S. University of Delaware) – Ph.D. 2024

Senior Scientist, Illumina Inc. (2024 – Present)


Postdoctoral Associates:

Dr. Nils Weidemann (5/2009 - 12/2011): Senior Scientist, Arejo GmbH, Berlin, Germany


MS Students:

Mason Stewart

Grant Margulieux

Lavinia Scherf

Brian Emerich

Daniel Spence


Visiting Scholars and Students:

Jens Kruk, TU Munich, Germany – 2012

Prof. Paul Fischer, Macalester College – 2014-2015.

Federico Salsi, Free University Berlin, Germany – 2018, 2019

Maria Haimerl, University of Regensburg, Germany – 2019

Guilhem Claude, Free University Berlin, Germany – 2019


Undergraduate Students:

Brian Fox

Queena Sun

Amanda David

Erik Meza

Hieu Hoang

Julia Stauber

Alexander Estrada

Patrick Smith

Isabel Wen

Wesley Swords

Donald Ripatti

Ryo Kamezawa

Irena Havryluk

Enrique Flores

Isreal Lopez

Antoanet Mousalli

Itzel Vaca

Younju Lee

Josh Richardson

Austin Ready

Mari Marshall

Julia Stauber