MEMBERS
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
Email Rachel
Post-Docs
R. Bharath Venkatesh (he/him)
Postdoctoral research fellow
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering / University of Pennsylvania
Research area: Polymer Upcycling
Rahul Sujanani
Postdoctoral research fellow
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering / UT Austin
Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions
Pratyusha Das (she/her)
Postdoctoral research fellow
Ph.D. Chemistry / University of Southern California
Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers
Haley Beech (she/her)
Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Craig Hawker)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research area: Polymer Upcycling
Harry Landfield
Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Scott Shell)
Ph.D. Chemical Enginnering/ Northwestern University
Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions
Chuqiao (Elise) Chen
Postdoctoral research fellow (co-advised by Glenn Fredrickson)
Ph. D. Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago (2024)
Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers
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
Graduate students
Shawn Mengel (he/him)
Ph.D. Candidate, 5th year
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)
James Bamford (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, 4th year
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Polymeric ionic liquids
Isabel (Isa) Arias Ponce
Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Craig Hawker)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Membranes and Water Interfaces
Jon Bingaman (any pronouns)
Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Susannah Scott)
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Polymer upcycling
Jerrick Edmund (he/him)
Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year (co-advised by Craig Hawker)
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Polymeric ionic liquids
Cameron Adams
Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year
Chemical Engineering / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)
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)
Alex Zele (she/her)
Ph.D. Student, 3rd year (co-advised by Michael Chabinyc)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers
Anush Singhal (he/him)
Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Michael Chabinyc)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Mixed Conducting Polymers
Kathryn Brockmeyer
Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Ram Seshadri)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Polymer upcycling
Braeden Dilworth
Ph.D. Student, 1st year (co-advised by Carolyn Mills)
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Bio-inspired polymers (peptoids)
Liam Warlick
Ph.D. Student, 1st year
Materials / UC Santa Barbara
Research area: Membranes and Water Interactions
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
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
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