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 Delaware
Layla 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 Engineering
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 Berkeley
Mark 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