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Group photo (May 2024)

Members

Principal Investigator

 

Kwabena Bediako

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

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Ph.D. Harvard University (2015)

M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)

B.S. Calvin College (2008)

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bediako[at]berkeley.edu

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Postdoctoral Scholars
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Ariana Ray

Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University (2024)

B.A. Physics, Columbia University (2017)

ariana.ray[at]berkeley.edu

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Kelly Walsh

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Washington (2024)

B.S. Chemistry, UT Austin (2018)

kmwalsh[at]berkeley.edu

Graduate Students
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Matthew Erodici

B.S. Chemistry, Wesleyan University (2019)

matthew_erodici[at]berkeley.edu

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Oscar Gonzalez

NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2020)

UCB Chancellor's Fellow (2020)

B.S. Chemistry, Texas A&M University (2020)

oscargon1234[at]berkeley.edu

Isaac Craig

Co-advised by Dr. Sinéad M. Griffin

NDSEG Fellow (2022)

Berkeley Graduate Fellow (2020)

B.S. Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2020)

craigi[at]berkeley.edu

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Sonal Maroo

M.S. Chemistry, IIT Madras (2017)

sonal_maroo[at]berkeley.edu

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Meg Takezawa

NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2024)

B.S. Chemistry, UW (2024)

meg_takezawa[at]berkeley.edu

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Shannon Fender

B.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2019)

M.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2020)

sfender[at]berkeley.edu

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Katherine Hinds

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, UW (2024)

khinds[at]berkeley.edu

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Garrett Hegel

B.S. Chemistry, MIT (2022)

Berkeley Graduate Fellow (2022)

ghegel[at]berkeley.edu

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Madelaine Dolich

B.A. Chemistry, Barnard College (2024)

mdolich[at]berkeley.edu

Undergraduate & Postbaccalureate Students
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Yizhe Wang

UC Berkeley

Mingrui Li

UC Berkeley

Linda Zhang

UC Berkeley

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Sadie Asker

UC Berkeley

David Sherer

UC Berkeley

Auday Askar Ahmed

UC Berkeley

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Jenna Qasqas

UC Berkeley

Past Members

Graduate Students
Zhizhi Kong, Ph.D. 2019-2024 | Lam Research
Kaidi (Ted) Zhang, Ph.D. 2019-2024 | J.D. Student at Berkeley Law
Samra Husremovic, Ph.D. 2018-2024 | Postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University
Madeline Van Winkle, Ph.D. 2018-2024 | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jonathon Nessralla, Ph.D. 2018-2023 | SmarAct Inc.

Valerie McGraw, Ph.D. 2019-2023 | U.S. Department of Agriculture  

Postdoctoral Scholars
Lilia Xie 
2020-2024 | Assistant Professor at Princeton 
Ellis Kennedy 2023 | Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Jonathon Nessralla 2023 | SmarAct Inc.

Xiaoyu Song 2022-2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University
Iwnetim (Tim) Abate 2021-2022 | Assistant Professor at MIT
Berit Goodge 2022 |  Schmidt Science Fellow, Minerva Group Leader at Max Planck Institute 

Kate Groschner 2021-2022 | Form Energy
Yun Yu 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor at George Mason University


Undergraduate & Postbaccalaureate Researchers
Philipp Letman 2024 | Continuing undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin 
Luis Fernando Esteva Sueiro 2024 
Bryan J. Kim 2020-2024 | Graduate student at MIT
Amani Malik 2023-2024 | Postbaccalaureate researcher at UCI
Alberto Mier 2022-2023 | Pacific Biolabs, Inc.
Swathy Natarajan 2022-2023 | Schneider Electric
Cameron Mollazadeh 2020-2023 | Graduate student at CU Boulder

Nikita Dowlatshahi 2021-2023
Nikta Khaloo 2021-2023
Rocky Hughes 2022-2023 | Graduate student at
UCSD
Simon Li 2022-2023 | Antora Energy
Ana-Teresa Mendoza 2022 | Graduate Student at Notre Dame
Elena Belk 2021-2022 | Graduate Research Intern at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 
Jacob Syndikus 2020-2021 | M.S. student at 
Universität Würzburg
Elijah Sherratt 2019-2020 | Visolis Inc.
Artur Lyssenko 2019-2020 | Graduate student at Harvard
Zoe Durbin 2019-2020
Nathanael Kazmierczak 2019 | Graduate student at Caltech
Samantha Stegman 2018-2019 | Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Information on joining the group can be found here.

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