Principal Investigator

M. Scott Shell
Myers Founder’s Chair in Chemical Engineering
Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
Office: (805) 893-4346, Engineering II 3321
Fax: (805) 893-4731
Email: shell@engineering.ucsb.edu

Graduate Student Researchers

Charles Li
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2019
Email: charlesli@ucsb.edu
(joint with Glenn Frederickson)

Sam Lobo
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2018
M.Ed. University of Notre Dame, 2020
Email: lobo@ucsb.edu
(joint with Joan-Emma Shea)

Tse-Chiang Huang
B.S.E. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2019
Email: tse-chiang@ucsb.edu
(joint with Matt Helgeson)

Daniela Rivera Mirabal
B.S. Chemical Engineering, U. Puerto Rico Mayagüez, 2021
Email: driveramirabal@ucsb.edu
(joint with Rachel Segalman)

David Zhao
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, 2021
Email: djzhao@ucsb.edu
(joint with Glenn Frederickson)

Vikram Shanbhag
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, 2023
Email: vvshanbhag@ucsb.edu
(joint with Michelle O’Malley)

Michael Meng
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, 2024
Email: m_meng@ucsb.edu
(joint with Glenn Frederickson)

Alec Zackin
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tufts University, 2024
Email: akzackin@ucsb.edu

Undergraduate Researchers

Joseph Morris
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Expected Graduation Date: June 2025
Email: josephmorris@ucsb.edu

Alumni

Dennis Robinson-Brown
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2023
After UCSB: Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories

Kevin Shen (Post doc)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 2018
After UCSB: Solutions Engineer at Noble AI

Stephen Lillington
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2023
After UCSB: Genentech

Nick Sherck
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2021
After UCSB: BASF

Madhu Venkata Rama Krishna Majji (Post doc)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, 2017
After UCSB: Postdoc at MIT, Swan Group

Jacob Monroe
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2019
After UCSB: Postdoc at NIST

Ryan Collanton
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2019
after UCSB: Ph.D. program at U. Minnesota

Daniel Chu
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2019
after UCSB: Ph.D. program at MIT

Tristan O’Neill
B.S. Physics, UCSB, 2019
after UCSB: Ph.D. program at UCLA

Jun Lu
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2019
after UCSB: Ph.D. program at U. Pennsylvania

Tanmoy Sanyal
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2018
After UCSB: Postdoc at UCSF

David Smith
(joint with Gary Leal and Samir Mitragotri)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2018

Brian Lynch
(joint with Gary Leal)
M.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2017

Nikolai Petsev
(joint with Gary Leal)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2015

Cody Hegel
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2016

Wen-kang Chou
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2015
After UCSB: Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University

Bob Feng
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2016
After UCSB: Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University

Joohyun Jeon
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2014
After UCSB: Samsung Electronics

Scott Carmichael
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2014
After UCSB: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Carolyn Mills
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2013
After UCSB: Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at MIT

Brian Giera
(joint with Todd Squires)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2014
After UCSB: Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Doga Ulupinar
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2013
After UCSB: Graduate student in Computer Science at UCLA

Rafael Prato
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2013
After UCSB: Graduate student in Materials Chemistry at University of Oslo

Aviel Chaimovich
(joint with Jacob Israelachvili)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2013
After UCSB: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute, Theoretical Polymers group

Rahul Lele
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2012
After UCSB: Graduate student in Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

Tommy Foley
B.S. Physics, UCSB, 2010
After UCSB: Graduate student at Pennsylvania State University

Ari Pritchard-Bell
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2011
After UCSB: Graduate student at University of Pittsburgh

Francis Agama
Intern, Summer 2010
After UCSB: Graduate student at University of Florida

Sean Ponce
B.S. Biochemistry and B.S. Physics, UCSB, 2011
After UCSB: Graduate student at John Hopkins University

Todd Smith
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2011

Jason Gee
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2010
After UCSB: Graduate student at Georgia Tech

Christine Yueh
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2011
After UCSB: Graduate student at Boston University

Edmund Lin
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UCSB, 2009

Dwight McGee
Intern, Summer 2008
After UCSB: Graduate student at University of Florida