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 / CARA New Technology Scouts
Rohini Gupta
Advanced Materials and Formulation Research
Emir Islamovic
Biosciences Research
Roel Sanchez-Carrera
Synthesis, Catalysis, and Inorganic Materials Research
Rui Zhang
Synthesis, Catalysis and Inorganic Materials Research
CARA Operations
Lissette Garcia
CARA Center, Program Manager/Principal Administrative Officer
Tel: (510) 643-1679
lgarcia@berkeley.edu
Former Principal Investigators
Frank Abild-Pederson, SLAC
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley
Ana Arias, UC Berkeley
Adam Arkin, UC Berkeley
Frances Arnold, Caltech
Peter Atkinson, UC Riverside
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Boris Bar, UC Riverside
Daniela Barile, UC Davis
Michael Burkart, UC San Diego
Manmohan Chandraker, UC San Diego, NEC Labs
Xi Chen, UC Davis
Yi Cui, Stanford University
Pieter Dorrestein, UC San Diego
Michael Fischbach, Stanford University
Bruce German, UC Davis
Zhibin Guan, UC Irvine
Malancha Gupta, USC
Tina Jeoh, UC Davis
Andrew Kummel, UC San Diego
Markita Landry, UC Berkeley
Jonathan Long, Stanford
Chong Liu, UC Los Angeles
Yan Liu, USC
Mark Mascal, UC Davis
Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego
Heather Maynard, UC San Diego
Eric McFarland, UC Santa Barbara
Phillip Messersmith, UC Berkeley
David Mills, UC Davis
Isabel Molina, Algoma University, Canada
Mark Musen, Stanford University
Nitin Nitin, UC Davis
Dan Nomura, UC Berkeley
Jens Norskov, Stanford University
Kristin Persson, UC Berkeley
Kristopher Pister, UC Berkeley
Anandasankar Ray, UC Riverside
Ravi Ramamoorthi, UC San Diego
Helen Raybould, UC Davis
Javier Read de Alaniz, UC Santa Barbara
Sarah Reisman, Caltech
Justin Siegel, UC Davis
Scott Shell, UC Santa Barbara
Patrick Shih, UC Davis
Vivek Subramanian, UC Berkeley
Jeff Skerker, UC Berkeley
Laurie Smith, UC San Diego
Nicole Steinmetz, UC San Diego
Galen Stucky, UC Santa Barbara
Hayden Taylor, UC Berkeley
Michael Tolley, UC San Diego
Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley
Nir Yosef, UC Berkeley
Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley
Researchers
| Name | Position | Research Group | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleen Ahern | Ph.D. Candidate | O’Malley group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Katelin Albanese | Ph.D. Candidate | Bates Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Aaron Becerra-Alvarez | Ph.D. Candidate | Al-Khatib group | UC San Diego |
| Alex Bologna | Ph.D. Candidate | Seshadri Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| 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 |
| Pin-Hung Chung | Postdoc | Bates Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Nicco Ciccia | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Peter Csernica | Ph.D. Candidate | Chueh group | Stanford University |
| Vardan Danghyan | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Berkeley |
| Kate Dolph | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis Group | UC Berkeley |
| Florian Dresher | Postdoc | Glass Group | UC Berkeley |
| Gina El Nasr | Ph.D. Candidate | Huang group | Stanford |
| Yuki Floyd | Ph.D. Candidate | Seshadri Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Caidric Gupit | Postdoc | Valentine Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Andrew Hwang | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Berkeley |
| Haowei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Nicolas Jaegers | Postdoc | Iglesia group | UC Riverside |
| Zhelong Jiang | Postdoc | Chueh group | Stanford University |
| Suji Jun | Postdoc | Giraldo group | UC Riverside |
| Anna Kallistova | Postdoc | Seshadri Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Arya Lallal Lall | GSR | Francis Group | UC Berkeley |
| Yang Li | Postdoc | Glass Group | UC Berkeley |
| Jiayun Liang | Ph.D. Candidate | Al-Balushi group | UC Berkeley |
| Tzu-Ling Liu | Postdoc | Bent group | Stanford University |
| Jie Luo | Postdoc | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Yimin Luo | Postdoc | Valentine Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Arifin Maulana | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | UC Berkeley/ |
| Alyssa McNamey | Ph.D. Candidate | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara/ |
| Jan Meisner | Postdoc | Martinez Group | Stanford University |
| Parker Morris | Ph.D. Candidate | Bates Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Faliha Mushayeed | Ph.D. Candidate | Morissette group | UC Irvine |
| Dwight Nishimura | Postdoc | Clement group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Howie Nguyen | Postdoc | Clement group | UC Santa Barbara |
| My Nguyen | Ph.D. Candidate | Schell/Fredrickson group | UC Berkeley |
| Arun Patel | Postdoc | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Ashlea Patterson | Ph.D. Candidate | Clement group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Jinwon Park | Ph.D. Candidate | Cargnello group | Stanford University |
| Nichole Pedowitz | Postdoc | Bogyo group | Stanford |
| Elisa Pieri | Postdoc | Martinez Group | Stanford |
| Anna Pischer | Ph.D. Candidate | Chemlka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Rebecca Reynolds | Postdoc | Holden Group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Pedro Salas | Postdoc | Maynard Group | UC Los Angeles |
| Michael Schmithmorst | Ph.D. Candidate | Chmelka group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Sandeep Sharma | Postdoc | Giraldo group | UC Riverside |
| Kevin Shen | Postdoc | Schell/Fredrickson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Kevin Shen | Postdoc | Fredrickson group | UC Santa Barbara |
| Jake Shi | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | UC Berkeley |
| Sophia Tan | Ph.D. Candidate | DeGrado group | UCSF |
| Kesha Tamakuwala | Ph.D. Candidate | Kanan group | Stanford University |
| Tulsi Upadhyay | Postdoc | Bogyo group | Stanford |
| Han Wang | P.h.D. Candidate | Sazmas group | UC Irvine |
| Henry Wang | P.h.D. Candidate | Martinez Group | Stanford University |
| Kai Xu/td> | Postdoc | Wu group | UC Berkeley |
| Hyun Jun Yang | Postdoc | DeGrado group | UC San Francisco |
| Yichen Zhai | Postdoc | Tolley group | UC San Diego |
| Cheng Zhu | Ph.D | Yang group | UC Berkeley |
| Arava Zohar | Postdoc | Seshadri Group | UC Santa Barbara |
Alumni
| Name | Previous Position | Research Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Lizandara-Pueyo | Synthesis, Catalysis, and Inorganic Materials Research | BASF | BASF SE |
| Joshua Speros | Adv.Mat & Formulation 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 |
| Kushagra Agarwal | GSR | Chueh group | Intel |
| Shradha Agrawal | Ph.D. Candidate | Chandraker group | Data Scientist, Adobe |
| Leslie Bateman | Ph.D. Candidate | Nomura Group | Sr. Scientist, Neomorph |
| Michael Belcher | Ph.D. Candidate | Keasling group | UC Berkeley |
| Zachariah Berkson | Ph.D. Candidate | Chmelka group | Postdoc, ETH Zurich |
| Mrittika Bhattacharya | Postdoc/td> | Barile group | R&D Scientist,SEER |
| Daniel Brauer | Postdoc | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Michael Breeden | Process Engineer | Kummel group | Process Eng.Applied Materials |
| Ala Bunescu | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge |
| David Burnett | Ph.D. Candidate | Pister group | Hardware Engineer, Apple |
| Nicolas Castrillon | Ph.D. Candidate | Zohdi group | Sr.Mech. Eng.Artyc |
| Jordan Castro | Ph.D. Candidate | Guan group | UC Irvine |
| Pengcheng Chen | Assistant Professor | Yang group | Fudan University |
| Stephanie Contreras | Postdoc | Siegel Group | UC Davis |
| Fan Cui | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | Sr. Scientist, Fluxus |
| Peyman Delparastan | Ph.D. Candidate | Messersmith Group | Engineer, Rivian |
| Gozde Demirer | Ph.D. Candidate | Landry Group | Asst. Professor, Caltech |
| Jiao Deng | Postdoc | Liu Group | UC Los Angeles |
| David Detomaso | Ph.D. Candidate | Nir group | Principal scientist, ArsenalBio |
| Letian Dou | Postdoc | Yang group | Assistant Professor, Purdue University |
| Thomas Dugger | Ph.D. Candidate | Uhrich group | Research Strategy Officer, UCOP |
| Biswanath Dutta | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Staff Scientist, National Energy Tech |
| Daniel Drew | Ph.D. Candidate | Pister group | Asst. Professor Univ. of Utah |
| Adel Elsohly | Postdoc | Francis Group | Principal Scientist, Genentech |
| Fengru Fan | Postdoc | Stucky group | Postdoc Researcher, Purdue University |
| Jason Fell | Postdoc | Siegel Group | Senior Scientist, Fapon |
| Maria Folgueras | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | Scientist, Dow Chemical |
| Breanna Ford | Ph.D. Candidate | Nomura Group | Sr. Scientist, Oerth Bio |
| Teng Fu | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Research Scientist, BASF |
| Will Gent | Ph.D. Candidate | Chueh group | VP Inlyte Energy |
| Evan Garner | Postdoc | Cargnello group | Co-Founder Get Lit Tech |
| Jamie Gleason | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis Group | Patent Agent, Wilson Sonsini |
| Emmet Goodman | Postdoc | Cargnello group | Scientist AWS |
| Eduardo Grandio | Postdoc | Landry group | Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia |
| Jason Grebenkemper | Postdoc | Wilson group | Process Eng., LAM/td> |
| Seojung Han | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Research Scientist, Korea National Lab |
| Hossein Heidari | Ph.D. Candidate | Taylor group | Assistant Professor, Univ. College London |
| Matthew Horton | Postdoc | Persson group | Sr. Research Soft.Eng., AI4Science |
| Lori Huberman | Assistant Professor | Glass group | Cornell CALS |
| Jianmei Huang | Postdoc | Yang group | Associate Professor, Beihang University, Beijing |
| Kang Huang | Postdoc | Nitin group | Lecturer, Univ of Auckland |
| Kevin Hudnall | Postdoc | Jeoh group | UC Davis |
| Jake Jaffe | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | Postdoc,Stanford Univ. |
| Steve Jacob | Postdoc | Toste group | Scientist, Arcus Biosciences |
| Zhe Ji | Ph.D. Candidate | Yaghi group | Asst. Prof. Peking Univ |
| Jianbo Jin | Ph.D. Candidate | Yang group | Scientist, BASF SE |
| Jacob Kanady | Postdoc | Alivisatos group | Sr. Scientist, Atoco |
| Sarah Klass | Postdoc | Francis group | UC Berkeley |
| Joon Kim | Ph.D. Candidate | Long group | MD Candidate, Stanford |
| Chinmay Kukarni | Postdoc | Uhrich group | Team lead, TotalEnergies |
| Carolyn Ladd | Postdoc | Arnold group | Sr. Research Specialist, Dow Chemical |
| Reed Larson | Postdoc | Toste group | Associate Principal Scientist, Merck Laboratories |
| Kyueui Lee | Postdoc | Messersmith group | Asst. Professor, Kyungpook National Univ |
| Teng Li | Ph.D.Candidate | Yang group | Venture Capital |
| Veronica Li | Ph.D. Candidate | Long group | Stanford |
| Kipil lim | Postdoc | Chueh group | Mitra Chem |
| Miao Liu | Postdoc | Persson group | Associate Professor, Institute of Physics in Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Jeff Lopez | Ph.D Candidate | Bao/Cui group | Postdoc, MIT |
| Fil Makisimovic | Postdoc | Pister group | Iota Biosciences |
| Kasey Markel | Ph.D. Candidate | Shih group | UC Davis |
| Aaron McLeod | Ph.D. Candidate | Kummel group | Sr Process Eng. ASM |
| Emily Morgan | Ph.D. Candidate | Seshadri group | Exponent |
| Nareh Movsesian | Ph.D. Candidate | Gupta group | Chemical Engineer, Northrop Grumman |
| Guang Miao | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Asst. Prof. Florida State Univ |
| Rafi Mohammad | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Director, Bayer |
| Joseph Montoya | Postdoc | Persson group | Staff Scientist, Toyota Research Institute |
| Max Ney | Ph.D Candidate/td> | Messersmith group | Postdoc, Duke University |
| Zhiqiang Niu | Postdoc | Yang group | Visiting Scholar, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics |
| Louis-Felix Nothias-Scaglia | Postdoc | Dorrestein group | UC San Diego |
| Ayodele Ogunkoya | Postdoc | Francis group | Research Scientist, Catalent Biologics |
| Dhananjay Pandey | Postdoc | Mayfield group | Data Analyst,seo Clarity |
| Allen Pei | Ph.D Candidate | Bao/Cui group | Staff Cell Eng. Tesla |
| An Phung | Postdocc | Burkart group | Evolved by Nature |
| Nick Polizzi | Assistant Professorc | DeGrado group | Asst. Professor,Harvard University |
| Tamas Prizleszky | Postdoc | Helgeson group | R&D Engineer at 77 Foods |
| Ritwika Ray | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Sr. Scientist, Merck |
| Bhausaheb Rajput | Postdoc | Burkart group | Research Inv. Sygene International |
| Michael Rombola | Postdoc | Arnold group | Scientist, Johnson & Johnson |
| Andrew Samant | Postdoc | Toste group | Research Scientist, Jansen Pharmaceuticals |
| Celine Santiago | Postdoc | Francis group | Sr. Scientist, Merck |
| Rapeepat Sangsuwan | Ph.D Candidate | Francis group | Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
| Jan Saska | Postdoc | Mascal group | Sr. Scientist, Astra Zeneca |
| Sabine Sebastian | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Postdoc, Univ of Groningen |
| Phillip Seltzer | Postdoc | Stucky/Chmelka group | Unknown |
| Nicole Schauser | Ph.D. Candidate | Seshadri group | Data Scientis,Volqaiq |
| Eric Schwartz | Ph.D. Candidate | Guan group | Analyst, EcoAct |
| William Scheideler | Ph.D Candidate | Subramanian group | Asst. Professor, Dartmouth College |
| Junnan Shangguan | Postdoc | Iglesia group | Postdoc, Origin Materials |
| Jimmy Shen | Postdoc | Persson group | Computational Physics, DeFi |
| Nick Sherk | Ph.D. Candidate | Schell/Fredrickson group | BASF |
| Benjamin Shih | Postdoc | Tolley group | Robotics, Harvard University |
| Shuang Song | Postdoc | Uhrich group | UC Riverside |
| Jeremy Smith | Postdoc | Subramanian group | Sr. Staff Scientist, Tesla |
| Jake Sporrer | Ph.D. Candidate | Subramanian group | UC Berkeley |
| Scott Strobel | Ph.D. Candidate | Jeoh group | Scientist, Pivot Bio |
| Verena Striebel | Postdoc | Abild-Pedersen group | Postdoc, Walter Schottky Inst |
| Shizhao Su | Postdoc | McFarland group | Electrochemical Scientist, Chemistry |
| Bo Su | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | Professor, Nankai University |
| Behzad Tangeysh | Postdoc | McFarland, group | Analytical Development Scientist, Seer |
| Richard Thornbury | Ph.D. Candidate | Toste group | Sr. Scientist, Gilead Sciences |
| Brylee David Tiu | Postdoc | Messersmith group | Sr. Research Scientist, 3M |
| Allon Wagner | Postdoc | Nir group | UC Berkeley |
| Baoju Wang | Postdoc | Atkinson group | UC Riverside |
| Justin Wang | Ph.D. Candidate | Hartwig group | Scientist, Chevron |
| Steven Wolf | Postdoc | UCSD group | Sr. Electrical Engineer, Raytheon |
| Dana Wong | Postdoc | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Dana Wong | Postdoc | Jeoh/Scher group | UC Davis |
| Zachary Wu | Ph.D. Candidate | Arnold group | Research Scientist, Deepmind |
| Angel Yang | Ph.D. Candidate | Cargnello group | Meta |
| Vanessa Yang | Ph.D. Candidate | Francis group | Manager, Kezar Life Sciences |
| Alexander Yemelin | Postdoc | Arkin group | Scientist, Acrigen Biosciences |
| Aryan Zaveri | Ph.D. Candidate | Clement group | UC Los Angeles |
| Bing Zhang | Ph.D. Candidate | Yaghi group | Process Engineer, Lam Research |
| Qing-Wei Zhang | Postdoc | Hartwig group | Assistant Professor, USTC |
| Xinrui Zhang | M.A. Student | Cargnello group | Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University |
| Xiaojun Zeng | Postdoc | Stucky/Chmelka group | Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute |
| Andre Zeumault | Ph.D Candidatet | Subramanian group | Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Xiaolei Zhu | Postdoc | Martinez group | Data Eng.,Stealth Mode Startup Company |