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
Principal Investigators
See PROJECTS page for a list of all PIs on CARA-affiliated campuses categorized by the project.
BASF Visiting Scientists
Rohini Gupta
Advanced Materials and Formulation Research
Emir Islamovic
Biosciences Research
Carlos Lizandara Pueyo
Synthesis, Catalysis and Inorganic Materials Research
Rui Zhang
Synthesis, Catalysis and Inorganic Materials Research
CARA Operations
Lissette Garcia
CARA Center Program Manager
Tel: (510) 643-1679
lgarcia@berkeley.edu
Former Principal Investigators
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley
Frances Arnold, Caltech
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Manmohan Chandraker, NEC Labs
Yi Cui, Stanford University
Michael Fischbach, Stanford University
Malancha Gupta, USC
Tina Jeoh, UC Davis
Eric McFarland, UC Santa Barbara
Nitin Nitin, UC Davis
Dan Nomura, UC Berkeley
Jens Norskov, Stanford University
Kristin Persson, UC Berkeley
Kristopher Pister, UC Berkeley
Ravi Ramamoorthi, UC San Diego
Vivek Subramanian, UC Berkeley
Hayden Taylor, UC Berkeley
Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
Nir Yosef, UC Berkeley
Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley
Frank Abild-Pederson, SLAC
Yan Liu, USC
Ana Arias, UC Berkeley
Phillip Messersmith, UC Berkeley
Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley
Adam Arkin, UC Berkeley
Peter Atkinson, UC Riverside
Jonathan Long, Stanford
Sarah Reisman, Caltech
Patrick Shih, UC Davis
Jeff Skerker, UC Berkeley
Andrew Kummel, UC San Diego
Mark Mascal, UC Davis
Chong Liu, UCLA
Galen Stucky, UCSB
Daniela Barile, UCD
Xi Chen, UCD
Bruce German, UCD
Helen Raybould, UCD
David Mills, UCD
Zhibin Guan, UCI
Researchers
| Name | Position | Research Group | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amr Badary | Postdoc | Mayfield group | UC San Diego |
| John Brunn | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Grace Busse | Ph.D. Candidate | Chueh group | Stanford University |
| Chungryong Choi | Postdoc | Bates & Read de Alaniz group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Kyoungmin Choi | Postdoc | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Nicco Ciccia | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Peter Csernica | Ph.D. Candidate | Chueh group | Stanford University |
| Kate Dolph | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Gina El Nasr | Ph.D. Candidate | Huang group | Stanford |
| Jamie Gleason | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Will Gent | Ph.D. Candidate | Chueh group | Stanford University |
| Eduardo Grandio | Postdoc | Landry group | UC Berkeley |
| Caidric Gupit | Postdoc | Hegelson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Andrew Hwang | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Berkeley |
| Haowei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Su-Ji Jeon | Postdoc | Giraldo group | UC Riverside |
| Jianbo Jin | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Yang Li | Postdoc | Glass group | UC Berkeley |
| Tzu-Ling Liu | Postdoc | Bent group | Stanford |
| Arifin Maulana | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | UC Berkeley/td> |
| Aaron McLeod | Ph.D. Candidate | Kummel group | UC San Diego |
| Jan Meisner | Postdoc | Martinez group | Stanford University |
| Emily Morgan | Ph.D. Candidate | Seshadri group | UC Santa Barbara |
| My Nguyen | Ph.D. Candidate | Schell/Fredrickson group | UC Berkeley |
| Louis-Felix Nothias-Scaglia | Postdoc | Dorrestein group | UC San Diego |
| Arun Patel | Postdoc | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Nichole Pedowitz | Postdoc | Bogyo group | Stanford |
| Elisa Pieri | Postdoc | Martinez group | Stanford |
| Anna Pischer | Ph.D. Candidate | Chemlka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| An Phung | Postdoc | Burkart group | UC San Diego |
| Bhausaheb Rajput | Postdoc | Burkart group | UC San Diego |
| Nicole Schauser | Data Scientist | Seshadri group | Voltaiq |
| Junnan Shangguan | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Berkeley |
| Sandeep Sharma | Postdoc | Giraldo group | UC Riverside |
| Kevin Shen | Postdoc | Schell/Fredrickson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Nick Sherk | Ph.D. Candidate | Schell/Fredrickson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Jake Shi | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Shuang Song | Postdoc | Uhrich group | UC Riverside |
| Sophia Tan | Ph.D. Candidate | DeGrado group | UCSF |
| Tulsi Upadhyay | Postdoc | Bogyo group | Stanford |
| Henry Wang | P.h.D. Candidate | Martinez group | Stanford University |
| Angel Yang | Ph.D. Candidate | Cargnello group | Stanford University |
| Xiaojun Zeng | Postdoc | Stucky/Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Yichen Zhai | Postdoc | Tolley group | UC San Diego |
| Arava Zohar | Postdoc | Seshadri group | UC Santa Barbara |
Alumni
| Name | Previous Position | Research Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Speros | Adv.Mat & Formilation R&D | BASF | BASF Ventures |
| Brian Standen | Digitalization in R&D | BASF | Global Head of Next Gen. Computing,BASF |
| Gopal Kamath | Digitalization in R&D | BASF | Sr. Digital Innovation Manager,BASF |
| Victor Oh | New Tech Scout, Biosciences | BASF | CEO,Tactile IA |
| Thomas Rausch | Digital Innovation Team Lead | BASF | Head of Digital Innovation, BASF |
| Derek Drost | New Tech Scout, Biosciences | BASF | VP, Plant Genetics at Unfold |
| Stephan Zuend | New Tech Scout | BASF | MBA Student, Warwick Business School |
| Ahmad Dehestani | New Tech Scout | BASF | Unknown |
| Yoram Barak | New Tech Scout | BASF | Scientific Marketing Human Nutrition, BASF |
| Carson Beyer | New Tech Scout | BASF | Head of CLS Portfolio, Bayer |
| Christian Schildknecht | New Tech Scout | BASF | Head of Optical Systems, Trinamix |
| Thorsten Staud | New Tech Scout | BASF | Program Manager, 3D Printing bei BASF |
| 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 |
| Shradha Agrawal | Ph.D. Candidate | Chandraker group | Data Scientist, Adobe |
| Scott Strobel | Ph.D. Candidate | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Dana Wong | Postdoc | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Richard Thornbury | Ph.D. Candidate | Toste group | UC Berkeley |
| Jake Sporrer | Ph.D. Candidate | Subramanian group | UC Berkeley |
| Kevin Hudnall | Ph.D. Candidate | Jeoh/Sher group | UC Davis |
| Nicolas Castrillon | Ph.D. Candidate | Zohdi group | UC Berkeley |
| David Detomaso | Ph.D. Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Breanna Ford | Ph.D. Candidate | Nomura group | LDP Program, BASF |
| Shizhao Su | Postdoc | McFarland group | Electrochemical Scientist, Chemistry |
| Allon Wagner | Ph.D. Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Brylee David Tiu | Postdoc | Messersmith group | Sr. Research Scientist, 3M |
| Zachariah Berkson | Ph.D. Candidate | Chmelka group | Postdoc, Coperet Lab |
| Steven Wolf | Postdoc | UCSD group | Sr. Electrical Engineer, Raytheon |
| Behzad Tangeysh | Postdoc | McFarland, group | Analytical Development Scientist, Seer |
| Max Ney | Undergraduate | Messersmith group | Postdoc, Duke University |
| Fengru Fan | Postdoc | Stucky group | Postdoc Researcher, Purdue University |
| Xiaolei Zhu | Postdoc | Martinez group | Data Scientist, Insight Data Science Bootcamp, Bay Area |
| Jan Saska | Postdoc | Mascal group | Sr. Scientist II, Nitto Denko, Oceanside, CA) |
| Carolyn Ladd | Postdoc | Arnold group | Sr. Research Specialist, Dow Chemical |
| Jianmei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | Associate Professor, Beihang University, Beijing |
| Joseph Montoya | Postdoc | Persson group | Scientist, Toyota Research Institute |
| Michael Rombola | Postdoc | Arnold group | Scientist, Discovery Chemistry, San Diego |
| Kang Huang | Postdoc | Nitin group | Lecturer, Univ of Auckland |
| Teng Lei | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | Investment Associate, Kunlun Capital |
| Tamas Prizleszky | Postdoc | Helgeson group | R&D Engineer at 77 Foods |
| Stephanie Contreras | Ph.D. Candidate | Siegel group | UC Davis |
| Jason Fell | Postdoc | Siegel group | UC Davis |
| Jason Grebenkemper | Postdoc | Wilson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Joseph Montoya | Postdoc | Persson group | Toyota Research, Palo Alto |
| Joon Kim | Ph.D. Candidate | Long group | MD Candidate, Stanford |
| Jimmy Shen | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Hossein Heidari | Ph.D. Candidate | Taylor group | UC Berkeley |
| Matthew Horton | Postdoc | Persson group | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| Daniel Drew | Ph.D. Candidate | Pister group | UC Berkeley |
| Bo Su | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | Professor, Nankai University |
| Eric Schwartz | Ph.D. Candidate | Guan group | UC Irvine |
| David Burnett | Ph.D. Candidate | Pister group | Hardware Engineer, Apple |
| Fil Maksimovic | Postdoc | Pister group | Scientist, Iota Biosciences |
| Daniel Brauer | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Gozde Demirer | Ph.D. Candidate | Landry group | Asst. Professor, Caltech |
| Peyman Delparastan | Ph.D. Candidate | Messersmith group | UC Berkeley |
| Biswanath Dutta | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Univ. of Illinois at Urbana |
| Teng Fu | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Research Scientist, BASF |
| Emmet Goodman | Postdoc | Cargnello group | Stanford University |
| Zhe Ji | Ph.D. Candidate | Yaghi group | UC Berkeley |
| Sarah Klass | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Chinmay Kukarni | Postdoc | Uhrich group | UC Riverside |
| Kyueui Lee | Postdoc | Messersmith group | Asst. Professor, Kyungpook National Univ |
| Kasey Markel | Ph.D. Candidate | Shih group | UC Davis |
| Miao Liu | Postdoc | Persson group | Associate Professor, Institute of Physics in Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Nareh Movsesian | Ph.D. Candidate | Gupta group | Chemical Engineer, Northrop Grumman |
| Dhananjay Pandey | Postdoc | Mayfield group | UC San Diego |
| Ritwika Ray | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Postdoc Researcher, UC San Francisco |
| Celine Santiago | Postdoc | Francis group | Sr. Scientist, Merck |
| Guang Miao | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Berkeley |
| Justin Wang | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | Scientist, Chevron |
| Zachary Wu | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Research Scientist, Deepmind |
| Vanessa Yang | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Alexander Yemelin | Postdoc | Arkin group | UC Berkeley |
| Bing Zhang | Ph.D. Candidate | Yaghi group | Process Engineer, Lam Research |
| Xinrui Zhang | M.A. Student | Cargnello group | Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University |
| Verena Striebel | Postdoc | Abild-Pedersen group | Stanford University |
| Benjamin Shih | Postdoc | Tolley group | Harvard University |
| Pengcheng Chen | Assistant Professorc | Yang group | Fudan University |
| Nick Polizzi | Assistant Professorc | DeGrado group | Harvard University |
| Mrittika Bhattacharya | Scientist II | Barile group | SEER |
| Michael Belcher | Ph.D. Candidate | Shih group | UC Davis |
| Michael Breeden | Process Engineer | Kummel group | Applied Materials |
| Jordan Castro | Ph.D. Candidate | Guan group | UC Irvine |
| Thomas Dugger | Ph.D. Candidate | Uhrich group | UC Riverside |
| Jiao Deng | Postdoc | Liu group | UC Los Angeles |
| Maria Folgueras | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Baoju Wang | Postdoc | Atkinson group | UC Riverside |
| Sabine Sebastian | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Caltech |
| Molleigh Preefer | Postdoc | Seshadri group | SLAC |
| Lori Huberman | Assistant Professor | Glass group | Cornell CALS |
| Phillip Seltzer | Postdoc | Stucky/Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Veronica Li | Ph.D. Candidate | Long group | Stanford |