Principal Investigator
Rebecca Abergel
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
Parker Stow
Joined 3/2025
PhD, UC Santa Barbara
BS, UC Berkeley
Nolwenn Mahieu
Joined 05/2024
PhD, Ecole Polytechnique
MS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Research Interests: Synthesis, Inorganic chemistry, SC-XRD
Alex Brown
Joined 11/2024
PhD, Brown University
BSc, Bridgewater State University
PhD Students
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
Research Interests: Separations Chemistry, Crystallography
Brooke Green
Joined 06/2024
BS, Texas A&M University
David V. Russell
Joined 07/2026
BS,
Dalton Stanley
Joined 10/2022
BS, Purdue University
Research Interests: Separations, Luminescence, Crystallography
Abhyavartin Selvam
Joined 10/2023
MTech, BTech, Amity University Noida
Research Interests: Radiobiology, Toxicology
Leslie Castro
Joined 05/2024
BS, Columbia University
Keith Sellers
Joined 09/2025
BS,
Julia Gottlieb
Joined 09/2026
BS,
Undergraduate Students
Amanda Fellinge
Joined 08/2024
UC Berkeley Chem
Isaac Valdez
Joined 9/2025
UC Berkeley
Joye Shen
Joined 1/2026
Nishpreet Shergill
Joined 3/2026
Ajay Trinh
Joined 06/2024
UC Berkeley Chem Bio
Gaby Quiusky
Joined 9/2025
UC Berkeley Chem
Ben Armanuse
Joined 10/2025
UC Berkeley
Apoorvi Singh
Joined 3/2026
Alumni
For a list of former group members, click on the link below.