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