Current Group Members

Dr. Brett A. Helms (he/him)
Principal InvestigatorPostdoctoral Fellow - Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2006-2007)
Ph.D. in Chemistry - University of California, Berkeley (2006)
B.S. in Chemistry - Harvey Mudd College (2000)

Dr. Jeremy Demarteau (he/him)
Project ScientistPostdoctoral Fellow - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2020–2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow - POLYMAT, San Sebastian, Spain (2018–2020)
Ph.D. in Chemistry - University of Liege - Belgium (2017)
B.S. in Chemistry - University of Liege - Belgium (2011)

Dr. Zhen (Allen) Xu (he/him)
Postdoctoral AssociatePostdoctoral Fellow - University of British Columbia (2020-2022)
Ph.D. in Chemistry - University of British Columbia (2020)
B.Sc. in Chemistry - Wuhan University (2014)

Dr. Dong-Min Kim (he/him)
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering - Seoul National University (2021)
MS. in Energy Engineering - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (2016)
B.S. in Green Energy Engineering - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (2014)

Dr. Gan Chen (he/him)
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy (2021)
M.S. in Chemistry - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2016)
B.S. in Chemistry - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2013)

Dr. Jingsong Yuan
Postdoctoral AssociatePostdoctoral Fellow - Boston College (2019–2022)
Ph.D. in Chemistry - Peking University (2019)
B.S. in Chemistry - Peking University (2014)
Dr. Kaushik Dey (he/him)
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Chemistry - IISER Kolkata, India (2021)
M.S. in Chemistry - IIT Kanpur, India (2015)
B.S. in Chemistry - University of North Bengal, India (2013)

Dr. Mutian Hua
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - University of California, Los Angeles (2021)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering - Beijing Institute of Technology (2016)

Dr. Sarah Gleeson (she/her)
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - Drexel University (2020)
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering - Case Western Reserve University (2013)

Dr. Souvik Sarkar
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Supramolecular Chemistry - JNCASR-Bangalore, India (2022)
M.S. in Chemistry - IIT Madras, India (2017)
B.S. in Chemistry - St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India (2015)

Dr. Youngmin Ko (he/him)
Postdoctoral AssociatePh.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - Seoul National University (2021)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering - Seoul National University (2016)

Mason Witko (he/him)
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, ChemistryB.S. in Chemistry - University of Connecticut (2022)

Mike Baird
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, ChemistryB.S. in Chemistry - UC Riverside (2016)

Francesca Ball
Undergraduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemical EngineeringGroup Alumni
Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Jiwoong Bae
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Hanyang University

Dr. Kevin Whitham
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Zi Wang
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at ZS

Dr. Rafal Dziedzic
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at QuantumScape

Dr. Jingbo Zhao
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at First Solar

Dr. Sung-Ju Cho
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Enevate

Dr. Jiajun Yan
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at ShanghaiTech University

Dr. Ran Tao
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at QuantumScape

Dr. Hai (Peter) Wang
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Dow Chemical Company

Dr. Junhua Song
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at 24M

Dr. Ankit Agrawal
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at QuantumScape
Dr. Peter Christensen
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at FLO

Dr. Jinsoo Kim
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)
Dr. Arthur White
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at California State University, Monterey Bay

Dr. Mark Abubekerov
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Intel

Dr. Michael Plews
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at QuantumScape

Dr. Swagat Sahu
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Amgen

Dr. Chengyin Fu
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology

Dr. Wenqian Feng
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Sichuan University
Dr. Miles Braten
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently a part time instructor at Cal Poly
Dr. Karol Miszta
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Nanoco Technologies
Dr. Longjun Li
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Clearist

Dr. Lin Ma
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Apple Inc.
Dr. Lorenzo Maserati
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Molecular Foundry Nanofabrication Facility
Dr. Ashleigh Ward
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Sila Nanotechnologies
Dr. Peter Frischmann
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently co-founder of Sepion Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Laura Gerber
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Sila Nanotechnologies

Dr. Evelyn L. Rosen
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Andrew Wills
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Solaria

Dr. April M. Sawvel
Postdoctoral Associate (co-advised with Dr. Delia Milliron)Currently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Georgeta Masson
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at Chevron Oronite

Dr. Aaron E. Albers
Postdoctoral AssociateCurrently at IDEAYA Biosciences

Dr. Rami Hourani
Postdoctoral Associate (co-advised with Prof. Ting Xu)Currently at Applied Materials

Dr. Sang-Min Park
Postdoctoral Associate (co-advised with Deirdre Olynick)Currently at Seagate
Doctoral Students

Dr. Miranda Baran
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Dr. Stephen Meckler
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, ChemistryCurrently a Member of Research Staff at PARC

Dr. Teresa E. Williams
Principal Scientific Engineering Associate and Graduate Student – Applied Science and TechnologyCurrently a AAAS Policy Fellow

Dr. Sean E. Doris
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, ChemistryCurrently a Member of Research Staff at PARC

Dr. Changyi Li
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemical EngineeringVisiting Scholars

Zachary Fink
Visiting Scholar from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Polymer Science and Engineering
Aeri Gosselin
Visiting Scholar from University of DelawareLayla Ge
Visting Master's Student from the Technical University of Munich, currently an intern at Apple
Changfei He
Ph.D. Student Currently at Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Mark Carrington
B.S. in Chemical Engineering - Stanford University (2017)
Vincent S. D. Voet
Master's Student Currently at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Rob van der Weegen
Master's Student Currently at Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Martijn Tichelaar
Master's Student Currently at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Niels Meereboer
Master's Student Currently at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The NetherlandsMaster's and Undergraduate Students

Pawan Khanal (he/him)
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering
Brett Allen
Undergraduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Christopher Chan
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Benjamin Cousineau
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Junwei Zhang
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Environmental Engineering
Jacob Zamojc
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Andres Mariano
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Alexander Zapata
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
Nhung (Chloe) Dieu
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Hana Komine
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, ChemistryBLUR 2019

Rebecca Walde
Undergraduate - Georgia Institute of Technology, ChemistrySULI 2019

Andrew Ells
Undergraduate - Washington University in St Louis, Chemical Engineering & Systems EngineeringSULI 2018

Lindsey Bear
Undergraduate - Western Washington University, Energy Policy and ManagementMickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF)

Kathryn Loeffler
Undergraduate - University of Texas at Austin, currently an Associate Engineer at MerckSummer Intern 2017

Karthik Mayilvahanan
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical EngineeringCurrently a Graduate Student at Columbia University

Amos Indranada
Undergraduate - UC BerkeleyCurrently an Assistant Research Scientist at Lilac Solutions, Inc.

Angelique Scheuermann
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, ChemistryCurrently a Graduate Student at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Muna Saber
Undergraduate, SULI InternCurrently a Graduate Student at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Steve Robinson
Undergraduate - UC BerkeleyMark Hughes
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical EngineeringCurrently an Engineer at General Motors

Ziyi Zhang
Undergraduate – UC BerkeleyCurrently a Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Andrea R. Bayles
Master's Student
Elise Goldfine
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2015)Currently at Northwestern University, Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program

Don Huynh
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2015)Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering

Leanne Friedrich
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2014)Currently at UC Santa Barbara, Materials Science Graduate Program

PJ Santos
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2014)Currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science Graduate Program

Erica Tsai
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2014)Currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry Graduate Program, Buchwald Group

Rory Runser
Undergraduate
James Burstein
Undergraduate
John P. Lawrence
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2013)Currently at Stanford University

Ethan Rosenberg
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2013)Currently at University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Kaiser
Undergraduate
Bradley Williams
UndergraduateSULI Intern

Christina M. Chang
Undergraduate, SULI Intern (2012)Currently at Harvard University
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Dev S. Chahal
UndergraduateCurrently at UCLA Medical School

Harvind S. Chahal
UndergraduateCurrently at Stanford Medical School

Patrick M. McBride
UndergraduateCurrently at UC Santa Barbara, Materials Science Graduate Program

Jeffrey M. Ting
UndergraduateCurrently at University of Minnesota, NSF Chemistry Graduate Fellow

Emma N. Rudié
UndergraduateCurrently at Yale, Biostatistics Graduate Program

Lina Zhu
UndergraduateCurrently at Kinestral

Mark J. Bailey
UndergraduateCurrently at Mount Sinai Hospital, M.D./Ph.D. Program

Jennifer T. Duong
UndergraduateCurrently at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University