Principal Investigator

M. Scott Shell

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

Postdoctoral Scholars

Kevin

Kevin Shen
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 2018
Email: kevinshen@ucsb.edu
(joint with Glenn Frederickson)

Graduate Students

Sally Jiao

Sally Jiao
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2018
Email: sjiao@ucsb.edu


Dennis

Dennis Robinson-Brown
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2018
Email: d_robinsonbrown@ucsb.edu


My

My Nguyen
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2018
Email: my@ucsb.edu
(joint with Glenn Frederickson)

SPL

Stephen Lillington
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2018
Email: stephenlillington@ucsb.edu
(joint with Michelle O’Malley)

CL

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

EP

Evan Pretti
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, 2019
Email: pretti@ucsb.edu


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)

Alumni

NS

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

M. Majji

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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

SPL

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