Current Group Members

Graduate Students

Leslie Castro
B.A. Columbia University, 2022
From: Los Angeles; Interests: CO₂ removal, rom coms, and tamborazo
Hannah Christianson
B.A. Barnard College, 2022
Matthew Dickson
B.S. Brigham Young University, 2021
 
Matthew Dods
B.S. University of Southern California, 2018
From LA, carbon's my trade
 
Kaitlyn Engler
B.S. University of Delaware, 2017
 
Katerina Graf
B.S. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2021
I came here to smell fish and make MOFs. And I'm all out of fish.
 
Ayah Hassan
B.S.E. Columbia University, 2018
environmental justice is a human right; poetry, pottery, and plants
Leander Held
M.Sci. Rochester Institute of Technology, 2021
Attributes: Magnetism, German; Strengths: not Chemistry... anything but Chemistry, Computation; Weaknesses: Chemistry, Softball, Ohioan
 
Adrian Huang
B.S. Caltech, 2020
3% Austrailian, 97% Californian, 100% Kindergartener. MOFs are of the past, CO₂ capture with chutzpah. Board games, volleyball, music swords, sushi
 
Emi Ito
B.S. University of Tokyo, 2020
M.S. University of Tokyo, 2022
伊藤 絵美
From: Japan; Research Interests: Magnetism; You can find me in the middle of chemistry ;)
Henry Jiang
B.S. University of Sydney, 2014
 
Sally Karstens
M.Sc. Philipps Universität Marburg, 2020
B.S. University of Virginia, 2018
I image MOFs using electron microscopes with dramatic names like "Titan" and "ThemIS"
 
Jeong Won Kim
B.S. Seoul National University, 2020
M.S. Seoul National University, 2022
(김정원)
From: Seoul, South Korea; Research Interests: Metal–Organic Frameworks
Hyunchul Kwon
B.S. Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2017
(권현철)
 
Daniel Lussier
B.S. U.C. Riverside, 2015
I've never been great at Bio, I'm more of a Chem guy.
 
Kennedy McCone
B.S. Stanford University, 2016
 
Ryan Murphy
B.A. Harvard University, 2014
M.M. New England Conservatory, 2015
 
B.S. Caltech, 2019
from: Vietnam & Texas; research interests: organic diradical and lanthanide qubits; hobbies: bouldering, dance, tennis, kdramas
 
Danh Ngo
Joseph Ondus
B.S. Clemson University, 2020
 
Priya Patel
B.A. Rutgers University, 2022
B.A. Rutgers University, 2022
From: NJ; Interests: Magnetism mofs, memes, meandering, music, mjrder, miming, melons, marxism, mozart (only requiem), mold, metal, mysteries, mars (bar), miller(lite), meetings, movie, mom
 
Kyle Pekar
B.S. Southern Methodist University, 2022
I occasionally know what I'm doing.
Ethan Pezoulas
B.S. University of Calgary, 2021
Token Canadian. Cleaning the world one PAF at a time. Lover of sandwiches.
 
Nicole Removski
B.S. University of British Columbia, 2022
From: Canada; Research Interests: waving gases @ mofs until they react
Rhea-Donna Reyes
B.S. New York University, 2020
B.S. New York University, 2020
From: Florida; Research Interests: Carbon Capture MOFS and Amine Degradation; Character Traits: *incessant humming*
Rachel Rohde
B.S. Duke University, 2018
I walked across the country and now I'm here making 100% Vegan, non-GMO, pasture-raised MOFs that bind things for separations
 
Alexandre Vincent
B.S. University of California, San Diego, 2017
Original Red Power Ranger
 
Yuto Yabuuchi
B.E. Kobe City College of Technology, 2018
(薮内祐人) From Japan. Believing MOFs are Yutopia for hydrogen.
 
Isaac Zakaria
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019
M.S. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020
Zapping materials with X-rays and stealing their electrons since 2021.
Ziting Zhu
B.S. Nanjing University, 2017
 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Jonas Boergel
Ph.D. Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 2019
 
Kurtis Carsch
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2021
I am an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, broadly interested in developing porous materials for outcompeting entropy. Yeehaw.
 
Bahman Golesorkhi
Ph.D. University of Geneva, 2019
Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Fellow, working on optical and spin properties of lanthanides embedded in molecules
 
Jesse Peltier
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2020
I am both a UC President's and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. I enjoy synthesizing porous materials, trying new breweries, and long walks to the PXRD
 
Hsinhan (Dave) Tsai
Ph.D. Rice University, 2018
(蔡欣翰) Originate from Taiwan. Direct air capture of CO2 can save the world !!
 
Mengshan Ye
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022
(叶梦珊) Born in China. Miller Postdoctoral Fellow now. Looking for good qubits, quantum sensors and Chinese food.
 

Staff

Hiroyasu Furukawa
Industrial Research Coordinator
Ph. D. University of Tokyo
 
T. David Harris
Associated Principal Investigator
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2010
 
Alain Kesseru
Program Coordinator
 
Katie Meihaus
Science Editor/Writer
Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, 2015
 

Visiting Professors

Jong Suk Lee
Sogang University
 

Visiting Scientists

Yukina Suzuki
Tokyo Institute of Technology
 

Undergraduate Students

David Lu
B.S. University of California, Berkeley Expected 2024
(鲁大伟) Third year undergrad from China. Doing some cool inorganic synthesis and single molucule magnet stuff with Alex.