We big challenges
using small pieces of matter
Matteo Cargnello
Principal InvestigatorAssociate Professor of Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, room 389
Alexis Rojas
Administrative AssistantShriram Center, room 091
Aruna Narayanan
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Dimosthenis Sokaras)SLAC; Photocatalysts for sustainable hydrogen production
Ning Yu
Post-doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Catalysts for low-temperature reactions
Wooje Cho
Post-Doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 378; Synthesis and use of alloyed nanoparticles
Tian Ren
Post-doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; CO2 conversion
Jake Heinlein
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Simon Bare)Chemical Engineering and SLAC; Catalyst for CO2 conversion
Kang Rui Garrick Lim
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Thomas Jaramillo)Chemical Engineering and SLAC; Thermal and electrochemical processes for CO2 conversion
Jinwon Oh
Ph.D. graduateMaterials Science and Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Hydrocarbon combustion catalysts
Makenna L. Pennel
Ph.D. graduateChemistry; Shriram Center, Room 378; Catalytic upgrading of plastics and polymer decomposition
Gennaro Liccardo
Ph.D. Candidate (W/ Stacey Bent)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Stable catalysts
Shradha Sapru
Ph.D. Candidate (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemistry; Shriram Center, Room 378; CO2 capture and conversion
Pin-Hung Chung
Ph.D. CandidateMaterials Science and Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 388; Aqueous-based synthesis of noble metal nanocrystals
Henry Moise
Ph.D. Candidate (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Sustainable hydrogen production
Alex Mateo Fontani Herreros
Ph.D. CandidateChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 378; Materials and processes for CO2 capture
Sydney Richardson
Ph.D. CandidateMechanical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 388; Active and stable catalysts for emission control applications
Sai Varanasi
Ph.D. CandidateChemical Engineering; Multimetallic catalysts
Juan José Aguilar López
Ph.D. CandidateChemical Engineering; Electrochemical processes for CO2 capture
Daniel Hutton
Ph.D. CandidateChemical Engineering; Catalysts for CO2 conversion
Samantha Le
Ph.D. StudentChemistry; methane splitting and CNTs synthesis
Hyun Ki Hong
Visiting PhD StudentMethanol synthesis catalysts
Debora Ferrari
Visiting PhD studentSLAC; Photocatalysis
Chanhee Choi
Visiting PhD studentElectrocatalyst synthesis
Dongjun Kim
Visiting PhD studentCatalyst synthesis and characterization
Matthew De la Luz
Undergraduate studentCO2 capture and conversion
Alumni
Name |
Position when left the group |
Year(s) |
Position after |
| Kristian Ax Nielsen | Visiting PhD student | 2025 | PhD student, University of Aarhus |
| ByeongJo Shim | Visiting PhD student | 2025 | PhD student, Pohang University of Science and Technology |
| Leonardo Colelli | Visiting PhD student | 2025 | PhD student, Sapienza University of Rome |
| Sarah Radzilowski | Undergraduate student | 2025 | Undergraduate student, Macalester College |
| Cindy Nguyen | Undergraduate student | 2025 | Undergraduate student, Stanford |
| Andrea Di Domenicantonio | Visiting MS Student | 2025 | Industry |
| Marco Gigantino | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2022-2025 | Lecturer, University College London |
| Sebastian Moll | Visiting MS student | 2024-2025 | PhD Student, ETH Zurich |
| Kaushal Parmar | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2023-2025 | Post-doctoral Scholar, NETL |
| Jeesoo Yoon | Visiting PhD Student | 2024 | PhD Student, KAIST, South Korea |
| Jorge Osio Norgaard | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2022-2024 | Start-up Co-Founder |
| Steven Chavez | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2022-2024 | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Rohan Parekh | Master Student, Stanford | 2023-2024 | Industry |
| Andrew Sleugh | Master Student, Stanford | 2023-2024 | Industry |
| Chengshuang Zhou | PhD Student | 2018-2024 | Post-doctoral Scholar |
| Rachita Rana | Visiting PhD Student | 2023 | Post-doctoral Scholar, MIT |
| Baraa Werghi | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2020-2023 | Staff Scientist, PNNL |
| Eric McShane | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Start-up Co-Founder |
| Mickey Stone | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Staff Scientist, NREL |
| Evan Gardner | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Start-up Co-Founder |
| Sabrina Ballauri | Visiting PhD student | 2022 | PhD student, Turin Polytechnic University |
| Dohyung Kim | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Jonathan Quinson | Visiting post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Aarhus |
| Yannai Kashtan | MS Student | 2021 | PhD student, Stanford University |
| Chun-Wen Tsao | Visiting PhD Student | 2021 | PhD student, National Chiao Tung University |
| An-Chih Angel Yang | PhD Student | 2016-2021 | Meta (Facebook) |
| Andrew Riscoe | PhD Student & Post-doctoral Scholar | 2016-2021 | Sila Nanotechnologies (Oakland, USA) |
| Aisulu Aitbekova | PhD Student | 2017-2021 | Kavli Post-doctoral Fellow, Caltech |
| Yulian He | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2021 | Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China |
| Weixin Huang | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2017-2020 | Assistant Professor, U. of North Dakota |
| Chih-Jung Chen | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2019-2020 | Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University |
| Emmett Goodman | PhD Student | 2016-2020 | Post-doc, Stanford |
| Cody Wrasman | PhD Student | 2016-2020 | Staff Scientist, NREL |
| Larissa Kunz | PhD Student | 2017-2020 | Start-up company |
| Rosadriana Zelaya | Undergraduate Student | 2018-2020 | PhD Student, UC Santa Barbara |
| Nadia Tahsini | Undergraduate Student | 2018-2020 | PhD Student, MIT |
| Jay A. Schwalbe | PhD student | 2015-2019 | Co-founder, Nitricity |
| Liheng Wu | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2015-2019 | Sabic (Houston, USA) |
| Zhenwei Wu | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Shell (Houston, USA) |
| Hyosun Lee | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Researcher, KITECH (South Korea) |
| Kun-Che Kao | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Professor, National Changhua University, Taiwan |
| Ian McKay | PhD student | 2015-2019 | L3 Open Water Power |
| Arun Johnson | High school student | 2019 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley |
| Evan Carlson | Undergraduate student | 2019 | PhD student at Stanford |
| Dionne Thomas | Undergraduate student | 2018-2019 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |
| Francisco Lopez | Undergraduate student | 2018-2019 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |
| Ethan Feng | High school student | 2019 | Undergraduate student at Columbia Univ. |
| Alexander Holm | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Assistant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden |
| Max Schumann | Visiting Ph.D. student | 2018 | PhD student at Denmark Technical U. |
| Angela Ye | High school student | 2018 | Undergraduate student at Columbia Univ. |
| Serey Nouth | High school student | 2018 | Undergraduate student |
| Mateusz M. Wojtaszek | Undergraduate student | 2018 | PhD student at MIT |
| Ian Naccarella | Undergraduate student | 2018 | Boston Consulting Group |
| Pit Losch | Visiting Post-Doc | 2018 | Post-Doc at MPI (Germany) |
| Joshua J. Willis | PhD student | 2015-2017 | ExxonMobil (Houston, USA) |
| Victor V. Miller | Master student | 2016-2017 | Shell (Martinez, CA) |
| Joseph Maalouf | Undergraduate student | 2015-2017 | PhD student at MIT |
| Arik Beck | Visiting Master student | 2017 | PhD student at ETH |
| Maria Vargas | High school student | 2017 | Undergraduate student |
| Aditya Menon | High school student | 2016-2017 | Undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara |
| Helen Yao | High school student | 2015 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley |
| Rachel Li | Master student | 2015 | Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA) |
| Kester Wade | Undergraduate student | 2015 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |
