Appointments
2019 – Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Chemistry

2012 – Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Department of Chemistry

2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University

Education
2008 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
2003 S.B. Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Awards and Honors
2014 – AFOSR Young Investigator Program award
2013 – 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2012 – Samueli Family Fellow
2009 – ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator
2004 – 2007 NSF IGERT Fellow in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
2003 – International Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS

Zachary James Urbach
Ph.D. Chemistry (Northwestern University)
B.S. Chemistry (Carnegie Mellon University)
Email: zurbach@uci.edu
Project: Electrically Conductive Biomaterials

Michal Wierzbicki
Ph.D. Chemistry (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences)
M.S. Chemical Technology (Warsaw University of Technology)
Email: wierzbim@uci.edu
Project: Electrically Conductive Biomaterials

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Adam Grosvirt-Dramen (Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
B.S. Chemical Engineering (CSU Long Beach)
Email: agrosvir@uci.edu
Project: Electrically Conductive Biomaterials

Khawla Mustafa (Ph.D. Chemistry – Physical Chemistry)
B.S. Chemistry (Qatar University)
Email: khawlam@uci.edu
Project: Electrically Conductive Biomaterials

Khachik Eric Labachyan (Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences)
B.S. Pharmaceutical Sciences (UC Irvine)
Email: klabachy@uci.edu
Project: Stress Responses in Infectious Bacteria

Yixin Huang (Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
B.S. Chemical Engineering (University of Rochester)
Email: yixinh13@uci.edu
Project: Stress Responses in Infectious Bacteria

Naomy Marrufo (Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering)
B.S. Physics (CSU Long Beach)
Email: nmarrufo@uci.edu
Project: Electrically Conductive Biomaterials

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Warren Yin (B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Allyson Lee (B.S. Biological Sciences)
Eunseo Lee (B.S. Chemistry)

RECENT GRADUATES

Miranda Xiao (B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Maya Halim (B.S. Microbiology & Immunology)
Jully Nguyen Le (B.S. Chemistry – Concentration in Chemical Biology)
Quynh Theresa Do (B.S. Chemistry, Biological Sciences; B.A. Psychological Science)

LAB ALUMNI

Xiangxi Yin – PhD Materials Science Student at UC Riverside
Zachary Falkowski – BS Materials Chemistry Student at UC Berkeley
Nahtalee Lomeli – PhD Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley
Andrew Christopher Smith
Dr. Saba Ranjbar – PBS Biotech Inc.
Martin Banda – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sasha Ronaghi – B.S. Materials Science Student at Stanford University
Brandon Pizarro – Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Student at University of Southern California
David Berlin – Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Student at UC Irvine
Justin Davis – Spacecraft Thermal Management Systems
Han Wang – Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering UC Irvine
Dr. Ryan Spencer – Protomer Technologies
Dr. Nicole Ing – Metre Inc.
Torin Dupper
Andrew Luu
Prof. Peter Woodruff – University of Southern Maine Dept. of Chemistry
Dr. Arunima Bhattacharjee – Pacific Northwest National Lab
Jasmine Wong – Cedar Sinai Hospital Los Angeles
Melissa Diaz – Johnson & Johnson
Samuel Richesson – Graduate Student Materials Science USC
Sara Diab – Undergraduate Public Healthy Policy UCI
Sonia Kim
Valerie Smetanka – Undergraduate Chemical Engineering UCSB
Dr. Tyler Nusca – AbSci
Tam Le – GKN Aerospace
Jacob Fenster – Graduate Student Chemical Engineering CU Boulder
Dimple Patel
Dr. Trevor Cornell – Analystical Service Inc. (ANSER)
Brandon Wang – NASA/CalTech Jet Propulsion Lab
Luyun Yang – HBT Labs
Yunfei Zhang – Graduate Student Materials Science UC Irvine
Dr. Paramita Kar-Choudhury
Sun Jun Park – Graduate Student Chemical Engineering UC Irvine
Andreina Coronel
Ben Zhou – Graduate Student Materials Science UCSD
Dean Orellana – PPG Aerospace
Zachary Ellison – Chevron Phillips Chemical
Pratik Jaiswal – Lam Research Corp
Bernice Wu – Undergraduate Chemical Engineering UC Irvine
William Gaieck – Graduate Student Materials Science, UC Irvine
Ester Chen – Senior Cypress HS
Jenny Liu – Senior Cypress HS
John Naviaux – Fulbright Scholar, Norway; Graduate student, Caltech
Debora Lehnen – Graduate student, Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil