Team Members
Ali Mohraz, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2006)
PhD Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan (2004)
ME Chemical Engineering, City University of New York (1999)
BS Chemical Engineering, Azad University (1996)
Alyse Gonthier
PhD Candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Advised by Professor Elliot Botvinick
BS Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley (2019)
GAANN Fellow
Sierra Gross
PhD Candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
BS Chemical Engineering and Minor in Materials Science and Engineering, UC Irvine (2019)
ECR Fellow
NSF Fellow
Luciano Groisman
PhD Candidate
Biomedical Engineering
Co-Advised by Professor Elliot Botvinick
BS Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine (2020)
ECR Fellow
NSF Fellow
Calvin Zhuang
PhD Student
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
MS Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon (2022)
BS Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon (2021)
Luis Henriquez
PhD Student
Chemical Engineering
Co-Advised by Professor Iryna Zenyuk
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2022)
Samantha Kwan
Masters Student
Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Advised by Professor Elliot Botvinick
Carmen Chambers
Undergraduate Researcher
Chemical Engineering
Neharika Gopikrishnan
Undergraduate Researcher
Biomedical Engineering
Honorary Members
Coco
Holding Office Hours, underwhelmed by your midterm performance.
Copernicus
Ready to make new discoveries. But, safety first!
Mochi
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Affiliated Alumni
Ken Chih
Chemical Engineering Student (current)
Brynn Turpin
Chemical Engineering Student (current)
Isabella Chu
Primary Advisor, Professor Lorenzo Valdevitt
Master of Materials Science and Engineering (2023)
Ryan Myrick
Co-Advised by Professor Elliot Botvinick
BS Biomedical Engineering (2023)
Bilal Saudi
Co-Advised by Professor Elliot Botvinick
Master of Chemical Engineering (2023)
Herman Ching
PhD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2022)
Todd Thornson
Post Doc Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2022)
PhD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2019)
Jonggyu Lee
Primary Advisor, Professor Yoonnjin Won
PhD Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Alyssa Pronovost
BS Chemical Engineering (2021)
Kyle McDevitt, PhD
Co-Advised by Professor Daniel Mumm
PhD Materials Science and Engineering (2020)
Andrew Luu
Chemical Engineering Student (2020)
Zeinab Ali Hatem
BS Chemical Engineering (2020)
Brian Paul
BS Chemical Engineering and BS Materials Science and Engineering, UC Irvine (2019)
Max Kaganyuk, PhD
PhD Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2019)
Rachel Gurlin, PhD
Primary Affiliation: BEAMS Lab
PI: Professor Elliot Botvinick
PhD Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine (2019)
Madeline Hale Talebi
BS Chemical Engineering (2020)
Parastoo Ali Pour
Double BS, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering (2018)
Michael Carson
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2018)
Saman Zaryab
MS Materials Science and Engineering, UC Irvine (2018)
Farzaneh Taslimi, PhD
PhD Soft Matter Physics, RWTH Aachen University (2013)
Jose Paolo Zapanta Ramos
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2017)
Amanda Lew
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2017)
Jessica Witt, PhD
Co-Advised by Professor Daniel Mumm
PhD Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2015)
Hubert Chan, PhD
GAANN Fellow
PhD Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2013)
Matthew Lee, PhD
GAANN Fellow
PhD Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2012)
Bharath Rajaram, PhD
PhD Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2011)
Alireza Mirsepassi, PhD
Main Affiliation at UCI: the Lasers, Flames, and Aerosols Research Group
PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2012)
Kunal Choudhuri
MS Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2016)
Shannon Xu
MS Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2014)
Kaela Napolitano
MS Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2012)
Leonora Kuzmenko
BS Chemical Engineering (2015)
Victor Vazquez
UROP Fellow
BS Chemical Engineering (2015)
Aleksander Metulev
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2014)
Junyan Peng
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2014)
Mathieu Gonin
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2012)
Rodrigo Nery Azevedo, PhD
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2009)
Jose Sierra
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2009)
Katie Pickrahn, PhD
BS Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine (2009)
PhD Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2014)