Directors
Peidong Yang
CARA Director
S. K. and Angela Chan
Distinguished Chair in Energy
Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
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
Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shradha Agrawal | Ph.D. Candidate | Chandraker group | UC San Diego |
| Zachary Berkson | Ph.D. Candidate | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Emmett Goodman | Ph.D. Candidate | Cargnello/Norkov group | Stanford University |
| Daniel Brauer | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Jianmei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Vanessa Yang | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Justin Wang | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Bo Su | Postdoc | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Stephanie Contreras | Ph.D. Candidate | Siegel group | UC Davis |
| Scott Strobel | Ph.D. Candidate | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Dana Wong | Postdoc | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Peyman Delparastan | Ph.D. Candidate | Messersmith group | UC Berkeley |
| Brylee David Tiu | Postdoc | Messersmith group | UC Berkeley |
| Kang Huang | Postdoc | Nitin group | UC Davis |
| David Detomaso | Ph.D. Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Allon Wagner | Ph.D. Candidate | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Breanna Ford | Ph.D. Candidate | Nomura group | UC Berkeley |
| Matthew Horton | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Miao Liu | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Joseph Montoya | Postdoc | Persson group | UC Berkeley |
| Jake Sporrer | Ph.D. Candidate | Subramanian group | UC Berkeley |
| Jason Grebenkemper | Postdoc | Seshadri/Wilson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Fengru Fan | Postdoc | Stucky group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Zhe Ji | Ph.D. Candidate | Yaghi group | UC Berkeley |
| Patrick Shih | Postdoc | Scheller group | UC Berkeley |
| Baoju Wang | Postdoc | Atkinson group | UC Riverside |
| Zachary Wu | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Caltech |
| Nicolas Castrillon | Ph.D. Candidate | Zohdi group | UC Berkeley |
| Craig Schindler | Ph.D. Candidate | Pister group | UC Berkeley |
| Sabine Bastian | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Caltech |
| Sarah Klass | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | Caltech |
| Ritwika Ray | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Caltech |
| Frank Abild-Pedersen | Postdoc | Sr. Staff Scientist SLAC | Stanford University |
Alumni
| Name | Previous Position | Research Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Beyer | New Tech Scout | BASF | Bayer |
| Christian Schildknecht | New Tech Scout | BASF | Trinamix |
| Ioana Aanei | Graduate Student | Francis group | Sci. Analyst & Entrepreneurship Prog. Manager |
| Adel Elsohly | Postdoc | Francis group | Staff Scientist, Genentech |
| Jake Jaffe | Graduate Student | Francis group | Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
| Rafi Mohammad | Graduate Student | Francis group | Staff Scientist, Bayer |
| Rapeepat Sangsuwan | Graduate Student | Francis group | Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
| Leslie Bateman | Graduate Student | Nomura group | Sr. Scientist, Celgene |
| Jeremy Smith | Postdoc | Subramanian group | — |
| JWilliam Scheideler | Graduate Student | Subramanian group | Postdoc, Stanford University |
| Andre Zeumault | Graduate Student | 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 | — |
| 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 |