Principal Investigator
Rebecca Abergel
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley
Program Leader, Heavy Element Chemistry, LBNL
Faculty Scientist, Chemical Sciences, LBNL
HERL Manager
Joshua Woods
Joined 10/2021
MS, PhD, Cornell University
BS, Syracuse University
Lab Manager
Kirsten Martin
Joined 05/2023
PhD, Stony Brook University
BS, Georgia Tech
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jennifer Wacker
Joined 09/2020
PhD, Georgetown University
BS, University of Redlands
Appie Peterson
Joined 01/2022
PhD, Washington University-St. Louis
BS, University of Missouri- Kansas City
Jeffrey McLachlan
Joined 01/2023
MS, PhD, Florida International University
BS, Florida Atlantic University
Juliana Padilha
Joined 11/2023
MS, PhD, Pontifical Catholic University- Rio de Janeiro
BS, Rural Federal University- Rio de Janeiro
Luis Aguirre Quintana
Joined 09/2021
PhD, Georgia Tech
BS, University of Texas at El Paso
Alexia Cosby
Joined 01/2022
PhD, Stony Brook University
BS, University of Oregon
Alex Rigby
Joined 05/2023
PhD, King’s College London
MChem, Cardiff University
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
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
Undergraduate Students
Jennifer Alvarenga Vasquez
Joined 06/2022
UC Berkeley Chemistry
Andrae Tabbs
Joined 08/2023
UC Berkeley Chemistry
Ethan Hallick
Joined 10/2023
UC Berkeley Chemistry
Isaac Jaro
Joined 10/2022
UC Berkeley Chemistry
Shereen Aissi
Joined 10/2023
UC Berkeley Nucl Eng
Alumni
For a list of former group members, click on the link below.