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
Ken Wan
Joined 06/2025
BA, UC Berkeley
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
Joe Brackbill
Joined 09/2024
PhD, UC Berkeley
BA, Dartmouth College
Dajie Sun
Joined 12/2024
Postdoc (11/21-12/24),Bernstein Group, UC Berkeley
PhD, UC Berkeley
BS, Tsinghua University, Beijing
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
Alex Brown
Joined 11/2024
PhD, Brown University
BSc, Bridgewater State University
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
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
Allison O’Brien
Joined 08/2021
BS, UC Berkeley
Dalton Stanley
Joined 10/2022
BS, Purdue University
Abhyavartin Selvam
Joined 10/2023
MTech, BTech, Amity University Noida
Leslie Castro
Joined 05/2024
BS, Columbia University
Keith Sellers
Joined 09/2025
BS,
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
Haley Kruger
Joined 6/2025
UC Berkeley Chem/Microbio
Isaac Valdez
Joined 9/2025
UC Berkeley
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
Gaby Quiusky
Joined 9/2025
UC Berkeley Chem
Ben Armanuse
Joined 10/2025
UC Berkeley
Alumni
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