Gordon Group

Members


Back row: Visoth, Graham, Mike, Eloise, Matteo, Sasha, Sara, Ryan
Front row: Neetika, Ankit, Yin-Chen, Zach, Atlas, Victoria


Michael J. Gordon

Chair, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Warren G. & Katharine S. Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering
Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC)
Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)

Office: 3353a Engineering II
Labs: 3163, 3165 Engineering II

805-893-7346
email Mike

     

Post-Doctoral Fellows


 
Dr. Ankit Chauhan
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ben Gurion University, Israel
3324 Engineering 2
ankitc92@ucsb.edu

Protein biophysics, metasurfaces,
near-field optics

Dr. Oleksandr Polonskyi
PhD Physics
Charles University, Prague
3324 Engineering 2
polonskyi@ucsb.edu

Plasma processing,
catalysis, UHV surface science

Dr. Neetika Singh
PhD Physics
IIT Roorkee, India
  3338 Engineering 2
neetis90@ucsb.edu

Electrochemistry, nanofabrication



Graduate Students



Ryan Berry
Photocatalysis & spectroscopy
Victoria Diaz
Protein-enabled photonics
Matteo Garcia-Ortiz
UHV surface science






Eloise Masquelier
Electrochemisty and
spectroscopy of proteins

Norleakvisoth Lim
Plasmas for energy conversion
& spectroscopy

Yin-Chen Lin
Electrochemisty and
spectroscopy of proteins






Sara Sandlass
Polymer photodynamics
& soft robotics

Graham Reitz
Dynamics of gas sorption on
refractory materials

Zachary Yam
Photocatalysis & spectroscopy


Undergraduates
•  Anuj Acharya, Chemical Engineering
•  AJ Jayaraman,Chemical Engineering
•  Allison Li, Mechanical Engineering
•  Atlas Yang, Chemical Engineering
•  Ian Cartwright, Chemical Engineering
•  Victor Liang, Chemical Engineering
•  Arek Terjimanian, Chemical Engineering
•  Shayan Mukherjee, CCS Chemistry
•  Tripp Pitera, Chemical Engineering
•  Allan Tan, Chemical Engineering
•  Satvik Subbaraman, Mechanical Engineering


Alumni
•  Dr. Pavel Shapturenka, PhD 2021, Post-doc at U. Penn.
•  Dr. Michael Haggmark, Post-doc 2020-21, Inficon
•  Dr. Sheng-Ping Liang, PhD 2021, Aptitude Medical Systems
•  Dr. Ryan Ley, PhD 2021, Applied Materials
•  Dr. Lesley Chan, PhD 2020, Neuralink
•  Dr. Katherine Mackie, PhD 2019, Hughes Research Labs
•  Dr. Richard Hermann, PhD 2018, Intel
•  Dr. Elizabeth Decolvenaere, PhD 2017, D.E. Shaw Research
•  Dr. Andrew Pebley, PhD 2017, Intel
•  Dr. Alex Heilman, PhD 2017, Amazon
•  Dr. Federico Lora Gonzalez, PhD 2015, Bristol-Myers Squibb
•  Dr. Louis Jones, PhD 2014, Millennium Space Systems (Boeing)
•  Dr. Christopher Carach, PhD 2014, Intel
•  Dr. Isaac Riisness, PhD 2013, Intel
•  Dr. Travis Koh, PhD 2013, Applied Materials
•  Dr. Raphael Ramos, Post-doc 2010-12, CEA-LITEN, Grenoble, France

•  Phineas Lehan, BS ChE 2024 → PhD at Caltech
•  Daniel Fragoso, BS ChE 2024 → Clorox
•  Abhiram Devata, BS ChE 2023 → PhD at Northwestern
•  Jacob Sweet, BS ChE / MS Materials → PhD in Machine Learning @ GIT
•  Alan Lim, BS ChE
•  Kevin Mauge, BS ChE / MS Materials → BS ChE / MS Materials at UCSB
•  Viraj Ghosh, BS ChE → PhD at Rice
•  Isaac Zakaria, BS ChE / MS Materials → PhD at UC Berkeley
•  Mat Wanees, BS ChE → Lockheed Martin Corp.
•  Aaron Chan, BS Physics → PhD at Michigan
•  Wen Zhao, BS ChE → PhD at Texas A&M
•  Tyler Pennebaker, BS Physics CCS → PhD in UCSB Materials
•  Oscar Wu, BS ChE → PhD at MIT
•  Jae Cho, BS ChE → PhD at MIT
•  Ryan Ng, BS ChE → PhD at Caltech
•  Zachary Buras, BS ChE → PhD at MIT
•  Cade Markegard, BS ChE → PhD at UC Irvine
•  Dr. Charles Hages, BS ChE → ASM, Inc.
•  Igor Chiasso Marques, BS ChE → Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
•  Alex Berry, BS ChE CCS → ANSYS, Inc.
•  Alec Anderson, BS ChE → Intel
•  Greg Bontemps, BS ChE → Biofuels, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
•  Calvin Jepson, BS ChE → First Solar
•  Nate Lannoy, BS ChE → Technip
•  Evan O'Hara, BS ChE → Solution Deposition Systems


Previous Visitors & Researchers in our lab
•  Prof. Francois Reniers, Professor of Chemistry, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
•  Prof. Maria Diaz-Garcia, Professor of Physics, University of Alicante, Spain

•  Marie Brabant, PhD student in Chemistry, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
•  Annaelle Demaude, PhD student in Chemistry, IMEC Belgium
•  Steven Addison, Science Specialist, Brywood Elementary School, MRL Research Experience for Teachers
•  Lindsey Agnew, Science Teacher, Carpenteria Middle School, MRL Research Experience for Teachers
•  Helen Stute, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Torge Hartig, MS Thesis, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, PhD at Kiel
•  Nikki Le, High School Chemistry Teacher, Sanger Unified School District, Fresno   
•  Alexandra Cantarano, PhD Student, Universite de Grenoble - Alpes, France
•  Therese Karmstrand, UG Internship, Chalmers University, PhD at Chalmers
•  Joffrey Baneton, PhD Student, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
•  Fabian Berkholz, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Michaela Dumberger, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Pauline Gaillard, UG Internship, Universite de Grenoble, France
•  Daniel Hirche, MS Thesis, TU - Munich, PhD at TUM
•  Scott Blankenbaker, UG Internship, Rose Hullman Institute of Technology
•  Preston Fuks, UG Internship, UCSD
•  Korina Hartmann, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Jonas Kaszoni, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Moritz Fullner, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Thomas Hancock, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Julia Brockmeier, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Gunnar Simonarson, UG Internship, Chalmers University, PhD at Chalmers
•  Robert Kick, MS Thesis, TU - Munich
•  Thomas Kandler, MS Thesis, TU - Munich

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