Baron Peters, Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
University of Missouri - Columbia (1999)

B.S. Mathematics:
University of Missouri - Columbia (1999)

PhD Chemical Engineering:
University 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.

Ravi Kumar Reddy Addula, Post Doc

Department of Chemical Engineering

PhD. Chemical Engineering:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2021)

M.S. Chemical Engineering:
IIT Kharagpur (2009)

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
JNTU Hyderabad (2007)

Research interests: Driving forces and kinetics of crystallization including pharmaceutical nucleation and growth, oriented attachment, and the mechanisms of ice growth inhibition by antifreeze proteins

Changhae Andrew Kim, Post Doc

Department of Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. Chemistry:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)

Sc.B. Chemical Physics:
Brown University (2017)

Research interests: Ab initio and kinetic modeling of structural heterogeneities in amorphous catalysts

Ziqiu Chen, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Mathematics

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
Syracuse University (2019)

B.S. Applied Mathematics:
Syracuse University (2019)

Research interests: Models for polymer dynamics in pores and bottom-up derivations for population balance models in polymer upcycling applications

Hossam Farag, Graduate Student

Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

M.S. Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE), :
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2020)

B.S. Nuclear and Radiation Engineering:
Alexandria University, Egypt (2017)

Research interests: Multi-scale modeling, Statistical Mechanics, Theory of rate processes, Ice Nucleation and anti-freeze proteins, precipitation in multi-component systems.

Howard Weatherspoon, Graduate Student

Department of Computer Science and Mathematics

B.S. Mathematics:
Albany State University (2020)

Research interests: nucleation and growth theory of semiconductor nanocrystals.

Jiankai Ge, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemistry:
University of Science and Technology of China (2021)

Research interests: Multiscale modeling tools for polymer upcycling research

Kevin Adams, Graduate Student

Department of Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry:
Georgia Institute of Technology (2021)

Research interests: Applications of importance learning and other methods for single atom catalysts on amorphous silica

Trevor Gayer, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
University of Nevada, Reno (2022)

Research interests: TBD

Emmanuel Ejiogu, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
University of Lagos (2018)

Research interests: Theory and computation geared towards polymer upcycling.

Aingaran Bala Raman, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
University of Nebraska (2022)

Research interests: Computational Biophysics.

Lela Manis, Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

B.S. Chemical Engineering:
Tennessee Technological University (2022)

Research interests: Multiscale modeling, ab initio modeling, computational catalysis, theory development.

Current Undergrads and Interns

Chinmay Sahasrabudhe: Two-phase reactor models for polymer upcycling (2022 -)
Patrick Carmichael: Mass transfer effects in heterogeneous catalysis (2022 -)

Former Undergrads and Interns

Colin Unger: UCSB College of Creative Studies Physics and Computing, 2020, now at UCSB
Isaac Zakaria: UCSB Department of Chemical Engineering, 2019, now at Berkeley
Daniel Chu: UCSB Department of Chemical Engineering, 2019, now at MIT (PhD)
Stephanie Taylor: UCSB Department of Chemistry, 2018, now at UCLA
Linmin Wang: UCSB ChE, 2016, now at Univ. Minnesota
Max Flattery: UCSB ChE, 2016, now at Toyon Research
Zhen Han: UCSB ChE, 2016, now at Indy Containerboard
Mayada Al Hashem: UCSB ChE, 2015, now at KAUST
Ye 'Chris' Yuan: UCSB ChE, 2015, now at Toyon Research
Ryan Do: UCSB ChE, 2015
Stefan Seritan: UCSB Chemistry, 2015, now at Stanford
James Deacon: High School Intern , 2015, now at CalTech
Daniel Ahumada: UCSB ChE, 2013
Evan Sanderson: UCSB Chemistry, 2013, now at UCSF
Daniel Bean: UCSB Comp. Sci, 2012, now at Fleet Admiral
Nathan Eidelson: High School Intern, 2012, now at Stanford

PhD and Postdoctoral Alumni

Ziqiu Chen (PhD 2023)
Pharmacometrician at Abbvie.

Armin Shayetesh Zadeh (PhD 2023)
Post-doc w/ Dr. Ferguson.

Ryan Yappert (PhD 2022)
Chemical Process Simulation Engineer at LanzaTech

Craig Vandervelden (PhD 2021)
Data analysis in Children's Mercy Hospital at Kansas.

Vikram Khanna (PhD 2021)
Boston Consulting Group.

Salman Khan (PhD 2021)
Post-doc w/ Dionisios Vlachos at University of Delaware.

Christian Leitold (Post Doc 2020)
Software Engineer, Verbund (Austria, 2022 - )
Co-teaching molecular simulation course with Christoph Dellago at University of Vienna (Austria, 2020 - 2022)

Vivekananda Bal (Post Doc 2020)
Post-doc w/ Richard Braatz at MIT.

Kartik Kamat (PhD 2020)
Engineer at Abbvie Pharmaceuticals (2022 - )
Post-doc w/ Bin Zhang at MIT (2020-2022)

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

Geoffrey G. Poon (PhD 2017)
Data Analyst at Bloomberg.

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

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

Ryan G. Mullen (PhD 2014)
Teaching Professor at University of Illinois (2022 - )
NSF Fellow
Postdoc with Edward Maginn at Notre Dame
Staff Engineer at Livermore National Lab

Anthony Fong (PhD 2014)


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

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

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