Alumni

Current Group Members

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Professor and Chef, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1991, Chemistry & Biophysics

M.S., University of California, Riverside, 1985, Chemistry

B.S., University of California, Riverside, 1984, Chemistry

UCI Faculty Profile: http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4581

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Graduate Students

Mona Wood

Scott Hollingsworth

Greg Starek (visiting from the University of Basel, Switzerland)

Undergraduate Students

Post-Docs

Joseph E. Curtis (2000-2002), currently research scientist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

John E. Vieceli (2003-2005), currently Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina, San Diego, CA

Martina Roeselová (2003-2004), currently staff scientist at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Eric C. Brown (2003-2004), currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Hirsh Nanda (2005-2006), currently research scientist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Raffaella D’Auria (2004-2008), currently research computing technician, UCLA Office of Information Technology, Los Angeles, CA

Eduardo Jardon-Valadez (2008-2010), currently visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico

Harindar Keer (2009-2010), currently co-founder of EduCircle Online Academy, New Delhi, India

Eric Schow (2009-2011), currently software engineer at Kuapay, Santa Monica, CA

Graduate Students

Yunsoo Choi (M. S., Chemistry, 1999), currently scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA

I-Feng W. Kuo (Ph. D., Chemistry, 2002), currently staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

Simon Jaud (Ph. D., Chemistry/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2005), currently Assistant Vice President, Business Program Consultant at City National Bank, Los Angeles, CA

Ryan W. Benz (Ph. D., Chemistry/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2006), currently computational biologist at Applied Proteomics, Inc., Glendale, CA

Neelanjana Sengupta (Ph. D., Chemistry/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2008), currently scientist at the National Chemical Lab, Pune, India

Jennie Thomas (Ph. D., Chemistry, 2007), currently post-doc at the Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Ben Robinson (Ph. D., Chemistry, 2008), currently senior principal software engineer at CareFusion, Yorba Linda, CA

Karen Callahan (Ph. D., Chemistry/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2010), currently post-doc at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Eric Schow (Ph. D., Physics/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2009), currently software engineer at Kuapay, Santa Monica, CA

Jordan Vincent (M. S., Chemistry/Chemical and Materials Physics, 2011), currently Legislative Liason, Associated Graduate Students of UC Irvine