CASTL - Key Persons


Amit Nag

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry in BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India

Andy Yang

Andy Yang is currently a second year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D in Chemistry at UCI. He graduated University of California Davis with a BS in Physics and Chemistry. After leaving UC Davis and before joining UCI Irvine, he worked as a research associate conducting R&D for a biotech startup in the Bay Area. Because of his interest in energy research and science, he has decided to pursue a Ph.D under the mentorship of Prof. Matt Law. His research emphasis is on plasmonic catalysis towards solar fuel production. The goal is to use light as the primary energy source for producing valuable chemicals.

Arthur T. Kemp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board
  • Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

Asit Patra

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist, National Physical Lab

Brett Goldsmith

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Cady Lancaster

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, World Resources Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

Chia-Yu Lin

Job Titles:
  • Intel Corporation, Process Engineer

Cindy Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Brigham Young University, Assistant Professor

Craig T. Chapman

Job Titles:
  • University of New Hampshire, Assistant Professor

Daniel Mirell

Job Titles:
  • Optical Engineer, Supply Chain Optics

Daniel Silverstein

Job Titles:
  • University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Fellow

David Stockdale

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine

Deng Pan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine

Desire Whitmore

Job Titles:
  • Senior Science Educator / Physicist Teacher Institute at Exploratorium

Dhara Trivedi

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Clarkson University

Donald Bren

Job Titles:
  • Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Irvine

Enrico Tapavicza

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, CSU Long Beach, Chemistry

Eric O. Potma

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Eric Weitz

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Feng Xue

Job Titles:
  • Student at Fudan University

Freddy Toledo

Job Titles:
  • Intel Corporation, Process Engineer

George C. Schatz

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University

George Nazin

Job Titles:
  • University of Oregon, Assistant Professor

Goksel Durkaya

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey

Gregory A. Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Gregory Welch

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

H. Kumar Wickramasinghe

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Hannu Häkkinen

Job Titles:
  • Academy Professor of Physics / Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä

Hikari Kimura

Job Titles:
  • Management Consultant, Corporate Values Associates

Hiroaki Maekawa

Job Titles:
  • Associate Specialist, UC Irvine, Ge Group
Is setting up pump-probe sSNOM experiments to measure carrier dynamics of dye-sensitized Ti02 coated plasmonic substances. Will perform near-filed mapping and nano FTIR investigation of optically ative polymer samples.

Hui Wang

Hui Wang obtained his PhD in materials physics chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and now is a postdoctoral researcher of Prof Wu group. His current research interests involve the electronic structure, vibration spectroscopy and manipulation of single molecule or single-atom catalysts on different substrates.

Ingolf Warnke

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Chemistry Fellow Research, Yale University

Jefferson Bates

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Chemistry Fellow Research, Northwestern University

Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah

John Dieringer

Job Titles:
  • GE Global Research

Jordan Klingsporn

Job Titles:
  • Intel Corporation, Process Engineer

Julia Majors

Job Titles:
  • Newport Corporation, Contract Technical Writer

Karoliina Honkala

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, University of Jyväskylä

Lasse Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, Penn State University

Laura Fabris

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Rutgers

Laura Rios

Job Titles:
  • Physics Education Research Associate, Colorado University at Boulder

Mark Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Mats Persson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, the University of Liverpool

Matthew D. Law

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

Michael McAnally

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses

Mika Pettersson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä

Mostafa El-Sayed

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External Advisory Board

Nien-Hui Ge

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Patrick Sims

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine

Patrick Z. El-Khoury

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Physics & Analysis Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Research Staff

Paul Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

Philip G. Collins

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

Ping Chu

Job Titles:
  • COMSOL Incorporation, Applications Engineer

R. K. Mellon

Job Titles:
  • Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Rebecca Gieseking

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Brandeis University

Reginald M. Penner

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Renee Frontiera

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Robert J. Phillipy

Job Titles:
  • President CEO, Newport Corporation, Irvine

Robert M. Corn

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Ruben Magana

Job Titles:
  • Shasta Crystals, Lab Technician

Ruben Zadoyan

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer, TAC, Newport Corporation

Samuel Kleinman

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Ondavia, Inc.

Supratik Guha

Job Titles:
  • Director, Physical Sciences, IBM Research

Thomas Spears

Job Titles:
  • GE Aviation, R & D Engineer / Technologist

Thomas Vanderpoll

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara

V. Ara Apkarian

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Venkat Bommisetty - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Wilson Ho

Job Titles:
  • Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Irvine

Xuejun Liu

Job Titles:
  • Rice University, Postdoctoral Fellow

Yang Han

Job Titles:
  • Agilent Technologies, Research Engineer

Yuan Feng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Specialist, UC Irvine, Ge Group

Zachary Henson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara