Bradley F. Chmelka Current group members and recent scientific visitors
mailing
address:

Professor Brad Chmelka
M/C 5080 Chemical Engineering Dept.
Engineering II, Room 3357
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080 USA

 
   
Current Post Docs

Philipp Selter

 
Current Graduate Students
 

Nathan Prisco
Tsatsral Battsengel
Shona Becwar
Maxwell Berkow
Michael Schmithorst

 
Current Undergraduate Students
 

Geoffrey Hanson
Yinkui Yui
Nick Krake

 
Alumni Post Docs
 

Manjunatha Reddy, Faculty researcher, University of Lille, France
Scarlet Widgeon, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, US
Aditya Rawal, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facilty, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sylvian Cadars, CNRS researcher, Université de Nantes, France
Jan Dirk Epping, Institute of Chemistry, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Almut Rapp, Head of Laboratory Functional Chemistry, Millipore Sigma, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany
Niklas Hedin, Professor, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University
Ricardo Mallavaia, Professor, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain
Hideki Maekawa, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan
Jelena Sepa, Director, Partnerships and Scouting at EMD Performance Materials, Mountain View, CA, US
Dieter Schaefer
Helene Dozol
Matthias Junk

 
 
Alumni Graduate students
 

Zachariah Berkson (2018, Ph.D.), Postdoctoral Scholar, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Howard Dobbs (2018, Ph.D.), Thin Films Process Engineer, Corning Incorporated, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Thomas Farmer (2018, Ph.D.), Senior Research Specialist, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, TX, US
Matthew Idso (2017, Ph.D.), Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, US
Niels Zussblat (2017, Ph.D.), Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer, Intel, Hillsboro, OR, US
Rahul Sangodkar (2016, Ph.D.), Scientist, Amgen, Boston, MA, US
Stephen Donaldson (2014, Ph.D.), Scientist, W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., Flagstaff, AZ, US
Louis Jones (2014, Ph.D.), Space R&D Engineer, Millennium Space Systems, Los Angeles, CA, US
Ming-Feng Hsieh (2014, Ph.D.), Scientist, Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK
Donghum Kim (2014, Ph.D.), Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam University, South Korea
Benjamin Smith (2013, Ph.D.), Intel, Hillsboro, OR, US
Justin Jahnke (2013, Ph.D.), Scientist, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, US
Nathan George (2013, Ph.D.), Assistant Professor, Data Sciences Department, Regis University, Denver, CO, US
Robert Messinger (2012, Ph.D.), Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, CCNY, NY, US
Ramzy Shayib (2011, Ph.D.), Senior Engineer, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, US
George Athens (2007, Ph.D.), Lead R&D Manager, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, US
Christian Steinbeck (2005, Ph.D.), Senior R&D leader, Nike, Portland, OR, US
Ryan Hayward (2004, Ph.D.), Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US
Nicholas Melosh (2001, Ph.D.), Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, US
Sean Christiansen, (2001, Ph.D.), Director of New Business Development, Albemarle Corporation, Charlotte, NC, US
Daniel Favre (1999, Ph.D.), Vice President, Bank of America, Plano, TX, US
Ali Firouzi (1997, Ph.D.), Vice President of Technology, Natron Energy, Santa Clara, CA, US
Michael Janicke (1997, Ph.D.), Team Leader, Resonance Center for Chemical Signatures, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, US
Matthew Aronson (2015, M.S.), Director of Engineering, Apeel Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Douglas Wildemuth (2007, M.S.), Principal Scientist, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH, US
Samuel Bishop (2003, M.S.), New Product Operations Manager, Apple, Cupertino, CA, US
Vikas Mittal (2000, M.S.), Vice President, RBC Capital Markets, New York, NY, US
Sean Williams (2000, M.S.), Manager IT, FedEx Services, Dallas, TX, US
John Macneil (1999, M.S.), Analyst, Office of the District of Columbia Auditor, Washington, D.C., US
Heather Maynard (1995, M.S.), Professor, Department of Chemistry, UCLA, CA, US
Katherine Brune (M.S.), Raytheon, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Howard Huang (M.S.)
Michelle Kropewnicki (M.S.)
Trenton Tovar (M.S.)
Michael Mann (M.S.)
Mark Mitchell (M.S.)

 
 
Sabbatical visitors
 

Prof. Antoine Gédéon, University of Paris, Jussieu, France
Dr. Naoki Ikenaga, University of Osaka, Japan
Prof. Martin Bakker, University of Alabama, US
Prof. Guillermo Calleja Pardo, URJC, Madrid, Spain
Prof. John Grutzner, Purdue University, US
Prof. David Serrano Granados, URJC, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Anders Palmqvist, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Prof. Maria Angeles Díaz-García, University of Alicante, Spain
Prof. Rafael van Grieken, URJC, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Anna Martinelli, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Prof. Josef Zqanziger, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Prof. Krister Holmberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Prof. Lynne McCusker, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Christian Baerlocher, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

 
 
Visiting Scholars
 

Nina Fechler, MPI-Gölm
Urlike Werner-Zwanziger
Detlef Reichert, Halle
Rober Graf, MPI-Mainz
Jordi Esquena, Barcelona
Patricia García-Muñoz, Madrid, Spain
Mounesha Garaga, Orlèans
Alexander Idström, Chalmers
Ana Carmen Perdigon, Sevilla
Loirder Peña, ITQ-Valencia
Ursula Tracht, MPI-Mainz
Gabriel Morales, Madrid
Jordi Nolla, Barcelona
Msayo Kaneko, Yokohama
Saar Kirmayer, Technion
Nils Mohmeyer, Bayreuth
Daniel Morales, Barcelona
Isabel Solé, Barcelona
Alberto Escudero, Sevilla
Dr. Silvia Bracco, University of Milano
Andreas Bergstrom, Chalmers
Åsa Ostlund, Chalmers
Shany Neystadt, Technion
Victoria Morales, Madrid
Manuel Ramirez, Alicante
Tamar Segal-Peretz, Technion
Mariané Silva de Miranda, Brazil
Kelly Pemartin, CSIC
Kyungsu Na, KAIST
Yongbeom Seo, KAIST
Changbom Jo, KAIST