MEMBERS

Group photo October 2024.

 

 

Rachel A. Segalman (she/her)

E. N. Kramer Professor of Materials
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials, and Chemistry & Biochemistry

Office: 3353 Engineering II & 3117E MRL
University of California, Santa Barbara

Phone: (805) 893-3709
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Post-Docs

 
 

R. Bharath Venkatesh (he/him)

Postdoctoral research fellow

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering / University of Pennsylvania

Research area: Polymer Upcycling

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Rahul Sujanani

Postdoctoral research fellow

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering / UT Austin

Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions

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Pratyusha Das (she/her)

Postdoctoral research fellow

Ph.D. Chemistry / University of Southern California

Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers

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Haley Beech (she/her)

Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Craig Hawker)

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research area: Polymer Upcycling

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Harry Landfield

Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Scott Shell)

Ph.D. Chemical Enginnering/ Northwestern University

Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions

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Chuqiao (Elise) Chen

Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Glenn Fredrickson)

Ph. D. Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago (2024)

Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers

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Jonathan Ouimet

Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Phillip Christopher)

Ph. D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Univerisity of Notre Dame (2024)

Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions

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Graduate students

 
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Shawn Mengel (he/him)

Ph.D. Candidate, 5th year
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)

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James Bamford (he/him)

Ph.D. Student, 4th year
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Polymeric ionic liquids

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Isabel (Isa) Arias Ponce

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Craig Hawker)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Membranes and Water Interfaces

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Jon Bingaman (any pronouns)

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Susannah Scott)
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Polymer upcycling

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Jerrick Edmund (he/him)

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Craig Hawker)
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Polymeric ionic liquids

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Cameron Adams

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)

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Daniela Rivera Mirabal (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Scott Shell)
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)

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Alex Zele (she/her)

Ph.D. Student, 3rd year (co-advised by Michael Chabinyc)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers

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Anush Singhal (he/him)

Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Michael Chabinyc)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers

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Kathryn Brockmeyer

Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Ram Seshadri)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Polymer upcycling

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Braeden Dilworth

Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Carolyn Mills)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)

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Liam Warlick

Ph.D. Student, 1st year
Materials / UC Santa Barbara

Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions

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Visiting Scholars

  • Tokio Mimura, JSR Corporation

  • Hiroki Aramaki, Mitsubishi Chemical

 

 Undergraduate and Master’s Students

  • Drew Collins, UCSB, Chemical Engineering

  • Christopher Pape, UCSB, Chemical Engineering

  • KeRay Chen, UCSB Chemical Engineering

  • Leyna Chau, UCSB Chemical Engineering

  • Anton Semerdjiev, UCSB Chemical Engineering

 

Alumni

Post Docs

  • Shivani Wadgaonkar (2024)

  • Shuyi Xie (2023), Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

  • Oscar Nordness (2023), Assistant Professor, Columbia University

  • Xiangxi (Zoey) Meng (2023), Dow Chemical Company

  • Kai-Chieh (Amy) Yang (2022), Staff Engineer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.

  • Joshua Moon (2022), Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

  • Hellen Papananou (2021), User Coordinator, BioPACIFIC MIP, UC Santa Barbara

  • Segolene Antoine (2021), Darwin Microfluidics

  • Dongwook Lee (2020), Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Hongik University

  • Ethan Susca (2019), Intel Corporation

  • Amer Hamidi-Sakr (2019), SocialZad

  • Amir Mazaheripour (2018), Neuralink

  • Reika Katsumata (2018), Assistant Professor, Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Colin Bridges (2018), Dupont

  • Shubhaditya Majumdar (2017), Apple

  • Josh Bartels (2017), Aspen Aerogels

  • Bhooshan Popere (2016), Verdox

  • George Rizis (2016), Covalon Technologies, Ltd.

  • Chris Evans (2016), Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Haiyu Fang (2016), Seagate Technology

  • Ayaskanta Sahu (2015), Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University

  • Eun Seon Cho (2014), Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  • Bryan Beckingham (2014), Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Auburn University

  • Meenesh Singh (2014), Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago

  • Nelson Coates (2013), Associate Professor, Physics, University of Portland

  • Wendy van Zoelen (2013), Patent Attorney, EP&C

  • Yanika Schneider (2012), EAG Laboratories & Lecturer at San Jose State University

  • Bryan W. Boudouris (2011), Professor, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

  • Kasper Moth-Poulsen (2010), Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • Kevin See (2010), Activate

  • Saar Kirmayer (2010), Landa Labs

  • Jibin Sun (2010), Lumentum

  • Young Rae Hong (2008), Natron Energy

  • Sung-Yeon Jang (2006), Professor, Energy & Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)


Graduate Students

  • Phong Nguyen (Ph.D. 2023), Merck

  • Thomas Webber (Ph.D. 2023), Institute for Defense Analyses

  • Audra DeStefano (Ph.D. 2023), United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Gordon Pace (Ph.D. 2023), Sila Nanotechnologies

  • My Linh Le (Ph.D. 2023), Apple

  • Seamus Jones (Ph.D. 2022), Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University

  • Mikayla Barry (Ph.D. 2021), The Clorox Company

  • Manuel Sanchez Zayas (Ph.D. 2021), BASF

  • Rubayn Goh (Ph.D. 2021), A*STAR Singapore

  • Dakota Hanemann-Rawlings (Ph.D. 2021), Deloitte

  • Beihang Yu (Ph.D. 2021), Postdoctoral Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (Ph.D. 2020), Leeta

  • Samantha McCuskey (Ph.D. 2020), Postdoctoral Associate, National University of Singapore

  • Amanda Matheson (M.Sc. 2020), EDF Renewables

  • Elayne Thomas (Ph.D. 2019), Saint-Gobain

  • Yuanyi (Alex) Zhang (Ph.D. 2019), Oblon

  • Anastasia Patterson (Ph.D. 2019), DuPont Electronics & Industrial

  • Scott Danielsen (Ph.D. 2018), Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Emily Davidson (Ph.D. 2016), Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Princeton

  • Gabriel Sanoja (Ph.D. 2016), Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin

  • Barbara Ekerdt (Ph.D. 2016), The Clorox Company

  • William Chang (Ph.D. 2015), Meta

  • Boris Russ (Ph.D. 2015), Apple

  • Victor Ho (Ph.D. 2013), 3M

  • Cynthia Chen (M.Sc. 2014), OpenTable

  • Shannon Yee (Ph.D. 2013), Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Miguel Modestino (Ph.D. 2013), Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University

  • Adrianne Rosales (Ph.D. 2013), Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin

  • Bryan McCulloch (Ph.D. 2012), Co-owner, Mountain Shadow Nursery

  • Megan Hoarfrost Beers (Ph.D. 2012), TE Connectivity

  • Hannah Murnen (Ph.D. 2012), Graphyte

  • Joe Feser (Ph.D. 2010), Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

  • Justin Virgili (Ph.D. 2010), Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.

  • Jon Malen (Ph.D. 2009), Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

  • Yuefei Tao (Ph.D. 2008), Co-founder, TX ElectroMagnetic Materials

  • Robert Wang (Ph.D. 2008) Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University

  • Pramod Reddy (Ph.D. 2007) Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan

  • Brad Olsen (Ph.D. 2007) Professor, Chemical Engineering, MIT


Visiting Scholars and Undergraduate Students

  • Ieva Narkeviciute, UC Berkeley

  • Kristen Colwell, UC Berkeley

  • Nathan Ellebracht, UC Berkeley

  • Jianfeng Liu, UC Berkeley

  • Jade Won-Golder, UC Santa Barbara

  • Christian Gomez, UC Santa Barbara

  • Matilde Bengtsson, Chalmers University of Technology

  • Chon Leong, UC Santa Barbara

  • Max Krötz, Technical University of Munich

  • Ketaki Malaviya, UC Santa Barbara

  • Mohamed Abdelmaksoud, UC Santa Barbara

  • Zach Neary, UC Santa Barbara

  • Jay Juil Chung, UC Santa Barbara

  • Gabrielle Kliegle, UC Santa Barbara

  • My Linh Le, Mount Holyoke

  • Josue Morales Santiago, UC Santa Barbara

  • Brittany Thompson, University of Southern Mississippi

  • Kevin Curtis, UC Berkeley

  • Anthony Clemens, UC Santa Barbara

  • Bailee Rusconi, Cal Poly

  • Daniela Rivera Mirabal, UPR Mayaguez

  • Gabrielle Kliegle

  • Eiko Tanaka, Asahi Chemical

  • Jay Chung, UC Santa Barbara

  • Douglas Ko, UC Berkeley

  • Renee Phillip, UC Berkeley

  • Cindy Lee, UC Berkeley

  • Linda Lei, UC Berkeley

  • Cameron Ross, UC Berkeley

  • Jiraksa Rajatawan, UC Berkeley

  • Kevin Lee, UC Berkeley

  • Wendy Gu, CalTech

  • Jay Bhatnagar, UC Berkeley

  • Cynthia Chen, UC Berkeley

  • Steven Alvarez-Rivera, UC Berkeley

  • Kevin Ng, UC Berkeley

  • Syeokyoung (Sean) Kim, UC Berkeley

  • Hoi Ng, UC Berkeley

  • Elizabeth Elgueta, UC Berkeley

  • Chun-Chih Ho,  National Taiwan University

  • Peter Kazarinoff, University of Washington

  • Ron Oren, Cambridge University

  • Sasa Antonijevic, UC Berkeley

  • Will Hudson, Seeo

  • Lisa Strover, UC Berkeley

  • Daisuke Kawaguchi, UC Berkeley

  • Aakriti Jain, UC Berkeley

  • Suchol Savagatrup, UC Berkeley

  • Robert Hess, UC Berkeley

Other associates

  • Nate Lynd, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin

  • Helen Reese (2005–2008), visiting teacher from Oxnard, CA