Current Group Members
Dr. Brett A. Helms (he/him)
Senior Scientist
Postdoctoral 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)
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Dr. Jeremy Demarteau (he/him)
Project Scientist
Postdoctoral 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. Dong-Min Kim (he/him)
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.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 Associate
Ph.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. Declan McCarthy
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D. in Chemistry - University of Colorado, Boulder (2023)
B.S. in Chemistry - University of Virginia (2016)
Dr. Youngmin Ko (he/him)
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - Seoul National University (2021)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering - Seoul National University (2016)
Mike Baird
Graduate Student - University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry
B.S. in Chemistry - University of California, Riverside (2016)
Mason Witko (he/him)
Graduate Student - University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry
B.S. in Chemistry - University of Connecticut (2022)
Daphne Lucana
Graduate Student - University of California, Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering - Cornell University (2023)
Francesca Ball
Undergraduate Student - University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Kameron Coda (they/them)
Undergraduate Student - University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Group Alumni
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Zhen (Allen) Xu (he/him)
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Mutian Hua
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at University of Washington
Dr. Souvik Sarkar
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Jingsong Yuan
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Kaushik Dey (he/him)
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Sarah Gleeson (she/her)
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Jiwoong Bae
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Hanyang University
Dr. Kevin Whitham
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Zi Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at ZS
Dr. Rafal Dziedzic
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at QuantumScape
Dr. Jingbo Zhao
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at First Solar
Dr. Sung-Ju Cho
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Enevate
Dr. Jiajun Yan
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at ShanghaiTech University
Dr. Ran Tao
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at QuantumScape
Dr. Hai (Peter) Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Dow Chemical Company
Dr. Junhua Song
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at 24M
Dr. Ankit Agrawal
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at QuantumScape
Dr. Peter Christensen
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at FLO
Dr. Jinsoo Kim
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)
Dr. Arthur White
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at California State University, Monterey Bay
Dr. Mark Abubekerov
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Intel
Dr. Michael Plews
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at QuantumScape
Dr. Swagat Sahu
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Amgen
Dr. Chengyin Fu
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology
Dr. Wenqian Feng
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Sichuan University
Dr. Miles Braten
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently a part time instructor at Cal Poly
Dr. Karol Miszta
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Nanoco Technologies
Dr. Longjun Li
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Clearist
Dr. Lin Ma
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Apple Inc.
Dr. Lorenzo Maserati
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Molecular Foundry Nanofabrication Facility
Dr. Ashleigh Ward
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Sila Nanotechnologies
Dr. Peter Frischmann
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently co-founder of Sepion Technologies, Inc.
LinkedIn
Dr. Laura Gerber
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Sila Nanotechnologies
Dr. Evelyn L. Rosen
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Andrew Wills
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Solaria
Dr. April M. Sawvel
Postdoctoral Associate (co-advised with Dr. Delia Milliron)
Currently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Georgeta Masson
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently at Chevron Oronite
Dr. Aaron E. Albers
Postdoctoral Associate
Currently 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
Currently at XLYNX
Dr. Stephen Meckler
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Currently a Member of Research Staff at PARC
Dr. Teresa E. Williams
Principal Scientific Engineering Associate and Graduate Student – Applied Science and Technology
Currently a AAAS Policy Fellow
Dr. Sean E. Doris
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Currently a Member of Research Staff at PARC
Dr. Changyi Li
Graduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Visiting 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 Netherlands
Master's and Undergraduate Students
Yiping Li (he/him)
Undergraduate Student - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chemistry
Albert Gang
Undergraduate Student - Yale University, Chemistry
Laura Reed (she/her)
Undergraduate Student - University of Washington - Seattle, Chemistry
Jenai Simons (they/she)
Undergraduate Student - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
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, Chemistry
BLUR 2019
Rebecca Walde
Undergraduate - Georgia Institute of Technology, Chemistry
SULI 2019
Andrew Ells
Undergraduate - Washington University in St Louis, Chemical Engineering & Systems Engineering
SULI 2018
Lindsey Bear
Undergraduate - Western Washington University, Energy Policy and Management
Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF)
Kathryn Loeffler
Undergraduate - University of Texas at Austin, currently an Associate Engineer at Merck
Summer Intern 2017
Karthik Mayilvahanan
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Currently a Graduate Student at Columbia University
Amos Indranada
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley
Currently an Assistant Research Scientist at Lilac Solutions, Inc.
Angelique Scheuermann
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemistry
Currently a Graduate Student at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Muna Saber
Undergraduate, SULI Intern
Currently a Graduate Student at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Steve Robinson
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley
Mark Hughes
Undergraduate - UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Currently an Engineer at General Motors
Ziyi Zhang
Undergraduate – UC Berkeley
Currently 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
Undergraduate
SULI Intern
Dev S. Chahal
Undergraduate
Currently at UCLA Medical School
Harvind S. Chahal
Undergraduate
Currently at Stanford Medical School
Patrick M. McBride
Undergraduate
Currently at UC Santa Barbara, Materials Science Graduate Program
Jeffrey M. Ting
Undergraduate
Currently at University of Minnesota, NSF Chemistry Graduate Fellow
Emma N. Rudié
Undergraduate
Currently at Yale, Biostatistics Graduate Program
Lina Zhu
Undergraduate
Currently at Kinestral
Mark J. Bailey
Undergraduate
Currently at Mount Sinai Hospital, M.D./Ph.D. Program
Jennifer T. Duong
Undergraduate
Currently at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
