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UC SANTA BARBARA Gordon Lab

Group Members

Michael J. Gordon - Principal Investigator Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering Warren G. and Katharine S. Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) email: office: office phone: labs: gordon@ucsb.edu 3351 Engineering 2 805-893-7346 3163, 3165 Engineering 2

Post-doctoral Fellows

Dr. Ankit Chauhan PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ben Gurion University office: 3324 Engineering 2 ankitc92@ucsb.edu Protein biophysics, metasurfaces, near-field optics   Dr. Oleksandr Polonskyi PhD Physics; Charles University, Prague office: 3324 Engineering 2 polonskyi@ucsb.edu Plasma processing; catalysis; surface physics

Graduate Students

Ryan Berry Victoria Diaz Norleakvisoth Lim Yin-Chen Lin Photocatalysis & spectroscopy (co-advised with Christopher) Protein-enabled photonics (co-advised with Chmelka) Plasmas for energy conversion & spectroscopy Spectroelectrochemistry Elöise Masquelier Graham Reitz Sara Sandlass Electrochemisty and spectroscopy of proteins Dynamics of gas sorption on refractory materials Polymer actuators & soft robotics

Undergraduate Students

Anuj Acharya AJ Jayaraman Allison Li Atlas Yang Spectroscopy of reflectin Spectroscopy of polymers Optical detection for soft robotics Spectroelectrochemistry Ian Cartwright Victor Liang Arek Terjimanian Shayan Mukherjee Plasmas for energy conversion Optical detection for soft robotics Optical detection for soft robotics Photonics

Visitors

Christen Robinson Jackson State University Owen Pryor UC Berkeley

Alumni

Where are they now? Dr. Pavel Shapturenka PhD 2021 Post-doc @ 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 Applied Physics @ Yale Alan Lim BS ChE Kevin Mauge BS ChE / MS Materials BS ChE / MS Materials @ 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 Intern at SLAC, Stanford 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 Prof. Charles Hages BS ChE, PhD Purdue Assistant Professor at Univ. of Florida 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 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 MRL Research Experience for Teachers 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