Directors
Peidong Yang
CARA Director
S. K. and Angela Chan
Distinguished Chair in Energy
UC Berkeley, Department of Chemistry
p_yang@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-1545
http://nanowires.berkeley.edu
Omar M. Yaghi
CARA Co-Director
The James and Neeltje Tretter
Professor of Chemistry
UC Berkeley, Department of Chemistry
yaghi@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5507
http://yaghi.berkeley.edu
Kerstin Schierle-Arndt
CARA Associate Director
Senior Research Manager
Inorganic Materials and Synthesis
BASF
Administration
Lissette Garcia
Administrative Assistant
Tel: (510) 643-1679
lgarcia@berkeley.edu
Principal Investigators
See PROJECTS page for a list of all PIs on CARA-affiliated campuses categorized by project.
BASF Visiting Scientists
Yoram Barak
Biosciences Research
Stephan Zuend
Chemicals and Inorganic Materials Research
Joshua Speros
Advanced Materials and Formulation Research
Ahmad Dehestani
Chemicals and Inorganic Materials Research
Alexa Beaver
Digital Innovation Manager
Victor Oh
Digital Innovation Manager
Thomas Rausch
Information Services and Supply Chain Innovation Management
Brian Standen
Digitalization in R&D
Mark Schmitz
Digitial Innovation Manager
Former Principal Investigators
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley
Vivek Subramanian, UC Berkeley
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
Yi Cui, Stanford University
Michael Fischbach, Stanford University
Researchers
| Name | Position | Research Group | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Abild-Pedersen | Postdoc | Sr. Staff Scientist SLAC | Stanford University |
| Shradha Agrawal | Ph.D Candidate | Chandraker group | UC San Diego |
| Mrittika Bhattacharya | Postdoc | Barile group | UC Davis |
| Zachariah Berkson | Ph.D Candidate | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Daniel Brauer | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Michael Breeden | Ph.D Candidate | Kummel group | UC San Diego |
| Nicolas Castrillon | Ph.D Candidate | Zohdi group | UC Berkeley |
| Stephanie Contreras | Ph.D Candidate | Siegel group | UC Davis |
| Peyman Delparastan | Ph.D Candidate | Messersmith group | UC Berkeley |
| David Detomaso | Ph.D Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Daniel Drew | Ph.D Candidate | Pister group | UC Berkeley |
| Saikat Dutta | Postdoc | Mascal group | UC Davis |
| Fengru Fan | Postdoc | Stucky group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Breanna Ford | Ph.D Candidate | Nomura group | UC Berkeley |
| Emmett Goodman | Ph.D Candidate | Cargnello/Norkov group | Stanford University |
| Jason Grebenkemper | Postdoc | Seshadri/Wilson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Matthew Horton | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Jianmei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Lori Huberman | Postdoc | Glass group | UC Berkeley |
| Kevin Hudnall | Ph.D Candidate | Jeoh/Sher group | UC Davis |
| Zhe Ji | Ph.D Candidate | Yaghi group | UC Berkeley |
| Kang Huang | Postdoc | Nitin group | UC Davis |
| Sarah Klass | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Carolyn Ladd | Postdoc | Mascal group | UC Davis |
| Joseph Montoya | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Molleigh Preefer | Ph.D Candidate | Seshadri group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Ritwika Ray | Postdoc | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Jan Saska | Postdoc | Mascal group | UC Davis |
| Nicole Schauser | Ph.D Candidate | Seshadri group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Craig Schindler | Ph.D Candidate | Pister group | UC Berkeley |
| Sabine Sebastian | Ph.D Candidate | Arnold group | Caltech |
| Jimmy Shen | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Patrick Shih | Postdoc | Scheller group | UC Berkeley |
| Jake Sporrer | Ph.D Candidate | Subramanian group | UC Berkeley |
| Scott Strobel | Ph.D Candidate | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Bo Su | Postdoc | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Shizhao Su | Postdoc | McFarland group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Behzad Tangeysh | Postdoc | McFarland group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Richard Thornbury | Ph.D Candidate | Toste group | UC Berkeley |
| Brylee David Tiu | Postdoc | Messersmith group | UC Berkeley |
| Allon Wagner | Ph.D Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Baoju Wang | Postdoc | Atkinson group | UC Riverside |
| Justin Wang | Ph.D Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Steven Wolf | Ph.D Candidate | Kummel group | UC San Diego |
| Dana Wong | Postdoc | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Zachary Wu | Ph.D Candidate | Arnold group | Caltech |
| Lifeng Xiao | Postdoc | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Vanessa Yang | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
Alumni
| Name | Previous Position | Research Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Beyer | New Tech Scout | BASF | Head of CLS Portfolio, Bayer |
| Christian Schildknecht | New Tech Scout | BASF | Head of Optical Systems, Trinamix |
| Ioana Aanei | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Sci. Analyst & Entrepreneurship Prog. Manager |
| Adel Elsohly | Postdoc | Francis group | Staff Scientist, Genentech |
| Jake Jaffe | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
| Rafi Mohammad | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Staff Scientist, Bayer |
| Rapeepat Sangsuwan | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
| Leslie Bateman | Ph.D Candidate | Nomura group | Sr. Scientist, Celgene |
| Jeremy Smith | Postdoc | Subramanian group | Sr. Staff Scientist, Tesla |
| William Scheideler | Ph.D Candidate | Subramanian group | Postdoc, Stanford University |
| Andre Zeumault | Ph.D Candidatet | Subramanian group | Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Steve Jacob | Postdoc | Toste group | Scientist, Arcus Biosciences |
| Reed Larson | Postdoc | Toste group | Sr. Scientist , Merck Laboratories |
| Letian Dou | Postdoc | Yang group | Assistant Professor, Purdue University |
| Jacob Kanady | Postdoc | Alivisatos group | — |
| Ala Bunescu | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge |
| Ayodele Ogunkoya | Postdoc | Francis group | Research Scientist, Catalent Biologics |
| Jeff Lopez | Ph.D Candidate | Bao/Cui group | Postdoc, MIT |
| Allen Pei | Ph.D Candidate | Bao/Cui group | Ph.D Candidate |
| Qing-Wei Zhang | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Assistant Professor, USTC |
| Andrew Samant | Postdoc | Toste group | Research Scientist, Jansen Pharmaceuticals |
| Fan Cui | Ph.D Candidate | Yang group | Postdoc, NYU |
| Zhiqiang Niu | Postdoc | Yang group | Visiting Scholar, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics |
| Seojung Han | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Research Scientist, Korea National Lab |
| Miao Liu | Postdoc | Persson group | Associate Professor,Institute of Physics in Chinese Academy of Sciences |