Principal Investigator
Rebecca Abergel
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Program Leader, Heavy Element Chemistry, LBNL
Senior Faculty Scientist, Chemical Sciences, LBNL
Lab Manager
Kirsten Martin
Joined 05/2023
PhD, Stony Brook University
BS, Georgia Tech
Postdoctoral Fellows
Luis Aguirre Quintana
Joined 09/2021
PhD, Georgia Tech
BS, University of Texas at El Paso
Jeffrey McLachlan
Joined 01/2023
MS, PhD, Florida International University
BS, Florida Atlantic University
Adedamola Arojojoye
Joined 07/2024
PhD, University of Kentucky
MSc, University of Lagos, Akoka
B.Tech, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho
Alex Brown
Joined 11/2024
PhD, Brown University
BSc, Bridgewater State University
Appie Peterson
Joined 01/2022
PhD, Washington University-St. Louis
BS, University of Missouri- Kansas City
Nolwenn Mahieu
Joined 05/2024
PhD, Ecole Polytechnique
MS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Joe Brackbill
Joined 09/2024
PhD, UC Berkeley
BA, Dartmouth College
Parker Stow
Joined 3/2025
PhD, UC Santa Barbara
BS, UC Berkeley
PhD Students
Trevor Arino
Joined 08/2021
BS, Oregon State University
Megan Schiferl
Joined 08/2022
BS, College of St Scholastica
Jolina Alonzo
Joined 08/2023
BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abhyavartin Selvam
Joined 10/2023
MTech, BTech, Amity University Noida
Leslie Castro
Joined 05/2024
BA, Columbia University
Allison O’Brien
Joined 08/2021
BS, UC Berkeley
Dalton Stanley
Joined 10/2022
BS, Purdue University
Adrianna Reece-Newman
Joined 08/2023
BS, Howard University
Elise Eng
Joined 12/2023
BS, Bridgewater State University
Brooke Green
Joined 06/2024
BS, Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Students
Ethan Hallick
Joined 10/2023
UC Berkeley Chem Eng
Aly Montiel
Joined 05/2024
UC Berkeley Chem Eng & Nucl Eng
Amanda Fellinge
Joined 08/2024
UC Berkeley Chem
Sahil Kewalramani
Joined 2/2025
UC Berkeley Chemical Biology
Shereen Aissi
Joined 10/2023
UC Berkeley Nucl Eng
Ajay Trinh
Joined 06/2024
UC Berkeley Chem Bio
Andrew Nystrom
Joined 11/2024
UC Berkeley Chem
Caralyn Truong
Joined 2/2025
UC Berkeley Microbial Biology
Alumni
For a list of former group members, click on the link below.