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Baron Peters, Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

B.S. Chemical Engineering
   University of Missouri - Columbia (1999)
B.S. Mathematics
   Univeristy of Missouri - Columbia (1999)
PhD Chemical Engineering
   Univeristy of California - Berkeley (2004)

Research interests: reaction rate theory, catalysis, nucleation and growth. In particular, we study crystal nucleation and growth from solution, catalysis on amorphous supports, and reactions in complex environments including polar solvents and interfaces.

   

Christian Leitold, Post Doc
Department of Chemical Engineering


Diploma Physics
   University of Vienna (2011)

Ph.D. Computational Physics
   University of Vienna (2016)

Research Interests: nucleation and growth of crystals, reaction coordinates, order parameters for molecular simulations.


   

Kartik Kamat, Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


B.S. Chemical Engineering
   Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (2015)

Research Interests: Polymorphism; solvent effects in kinetics



   

Salman Khan, Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


B.S. Chemical Engineering
   Indian Inst. of Technology, Kanpur (2016)

Research interests: Catalyst preparation/grafting. Amorphous catalyst materials.

   

Vikram Khanna, Graduate Student
Doherty Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering


B.S. Chemical Engineering
   Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (2016)

Research Interests: Driving forces and kinetics of crystal growth.

   

Craig Vandervelden, Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


B.S. Chemical Engineering
   University of Kansas (2016)

Research Interests: site averages in ab initio studies of catalysts, particularly amorphous catalyst materials.

   

Ryan Yappert, Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


B.S. Chemical Engineering
   Bucknell University (2016)

Research Interests: Overdamped reaction rate theories, population balances in catalytic processes involving polymers as reactants/products.


Undergraduates & Interns

   

Colin Unger, Undergraduate Sudent
College of Creative Studies Physics and Computing

UCSB (2020 Expected)

   

Daniel Chu, Undergraduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


UCSB (2019 Expected)


   

Stephanie Taylor, Undergraduate Student
Department of Chemistry


UCSB (2018 Expected)


   

Isaac Zakaria, Undergraduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering


UCSB (2019 Expected)


   

*Zhen Han (UCSB ChE 2016)

*Max Flattery (UCSB ChE 2016)

*Linmin Wang (UCSB ChE 2016, now at Univ. Minnesota)

*James Deacon (High School Intern, Class of 2015, now at CalTech)

*Stefan Seritan (UCSB Chemistry 2015, now at Stanford)

*Ryan Do (UCSB ChE 2015)

*Ye "Chris" Yuan (UCSB ChE 2015, now at UCSB Materials)

*Mayada Al Hashem (UCSB ChE 2015)

*Evan Sanderson (UCSB Chemistry 2013, now at UCSF)

*Daniel Ahumada (UCSB ChE 2013)

*Nathan Eidelson (High School Intern, Class of 2012, now at Stanford)

*Daniel Bean (UCSB Comp. Sci 2012, now at Fleet Admiral)


* = former member

PhD and Postdoctoral Alumni

   


Geoffrey G. Poon (PhD 2017)
2nd Measure Data Analytics.

   


Mark Joswiak (PhD 2017)
Senior Engineer at The Dow Chemical Company

   


Bryan R. Goldsmith (PhD 2015)
Schlinger Fellow
Humboldt Fellow
Post-doc w/ Matthias Scheffler at Fritz-Haber Institute
Assistant professor Michigan (2017-)

   


Nils Zimmermann (Post Doc 2013-2015)
Research Specialist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

   


Anthony Fong (PhD 2014)

   


Ryan G. Mullen (PhD 2014)
NSF Fellow
Postdoc with Edward Maginn at Notre Dame
Staff Engineer at Livermore National Lab

   

Vishal Agarwal (Post Doc 2012-2013)
Post-doc w/ Horia Metiu at UCSB
Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur (2017-)

   

Nathan Duff (PhD 2013)
Post-doc w/ Erik Santiso at NCSU

   

Brandon Knott (PhD 2012)
Schlinger Fellow
National Renewable Energy Laboratory