Affiliated Faculty

Shane Ardo, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: inorganic and organometallic, physical chemistry and chemical physics, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: ardo@uci.edu
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Maxx Arguilla, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: optically- and electrically-active low-dimensional crystals; helical materials for spintronics and quantum devices; atomically precise nanomaterials for energy conversion and sensing
Email: marguill@uci.edu
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Jack Brouwer, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director of Advanced Power and Energy Program
Research Interests: high-temperature electrochemical dynamics, fuel cells, renewable and sustainable energy
Email: jbrouwer@uci.edu
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John Chaput, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Chemistry; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: chemical and synthetic biology, artificial genetic polymers, therapeutics, diagnostics, and information storage
Email: jchaput@uci.edu
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Stacy Copp, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Physics and Astronomy; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: soft photonic and electronic materials, metal nanoclusters, polymer nanostructures, self-assembly, biomimetics, machine learning for materials discovery
Email: stacy.copp@uci.edu
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Sarah Finkeldei, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: nuclear chemistry, nuclear fuel cycle research, nuclear waste form stability and corrosion behavior, structural uptake of radionuclides
Email: sfinkeld@uci.edu
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Anna Grosberg, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: computational modeling of biological systems, biomechanics, cardiac tissue engineering
Email: grosberg@uci.edu
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Zhibin Guan, Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Synthesis of new generation of biomaterials for gene/drug delivery and tissue regeneration
Email: zguan@uci.edu


Jered Haun, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: nanotechnology, molecular engineering, computational simulations, targeted drug delivery, clinical cancer detection
Email: jered.haun@uci.edu


Allon Hochbaum, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Chemistry; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Research Interests: nanoscale materials and hybrid bio-inorganic devices for applications in clean energy
Email: hochbaum@uci.edu
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Matt Law, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: inorganic and organometallic, physical chemistry and chemical physics, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: matt.law@uci.edu
 

Elizabeth M.Y. Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Samueli Faculty Development Chair
Research Interests: Computational materials and chemistry; quantum, electronic and energy materials; nanoscale transport phenomena; machine learning
Email: elizabeth.lee@uci.edu
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Wendy Liu, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: biomaterials, microdevices in cardiovascular engineering, cell-cell and cell-micro-environment interactions, cell functions and controls
Email: wendy.liu@uci.edu
 

Ray Luo, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: computational biochemistry and molecular biophysics, intermolecular interactions in proteins and nucleic acids and their applications to drug design
Email: ray.luo@uci.ed


Bihter Padak, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Associate Director of UCI Combustion Laboratory
Research Interests: combustion, reaction kinetics, emission control technologies, catalysis
Email: bpadak@uci.edu 


Xiaoqing Pan, Ph.D.

Professor and Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: atomic-scale structure, properties and dynamic behaviors of advanced materials including thin films and nanostructures for memories, catalysts, and energy conversion and storage devices
Email: xiaoqing.pan@uci.edu
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Regina Ragan, Ph.D.

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: exploration and development of novel material systems for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices
Email: rragan@uci.edu
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Diego Rosso, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Director of the UCI WEX Center
Research Interests: environmental process engineering, mass transfer, wastewater treatment, carbon- and energy-footprint analysis
Email: bidui@uci.edu
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Seunghyun Sim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: soft materials, protein engineering, synthetic polymers, engineered living materials, supramolecular chemistry
Email: s.sim@uci.edu
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