Where do Alumni from our lab end up?
Undergraduate Alumni placements
Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry: Brown University, UC Irvine (3), Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, UT Dallas, University of Georgia, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Riverside
Dental School: UC San Francisco
Medical School: Creighton U School of Medicine
Pharmacy (PharmD): UNC Chapel Hill
Nursing: CSU Fullerton
Industry: Curative, Ecolab, IMS Limited
Government: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate (M.S.) Alumni placements
Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry: UC Riverside, Florida State University
Industry: PPG, Chemco Products, Curative, Captura
Government: City of LA
Teaching: Ruben S. Ayala High School
Postdoc Alumni placements
Tenure track faculty positions: Weber State University
Faculty positions: Los Angeles Pierce College
List of Alumni
Jeanette Wolfarth is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Oct. 2023. She is studying crystallography and co-crystallizations.
Frances Paredes is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Sept. 2023 doing electrochemical CO2 reduction.
Zachary Carrillo is a Chemistry major and joined the group in July 2023. He is studying electrochemical CO2 reduction.
Romualda Aquino is a Master's student and joined the group in Oct. 2021. She is making functionalized ligands for Ni complexes.
Nwamaka Ofoegbu Joined the group in Jun. - Aug. 2023 as part of the STARS program. She is studying CO2 reduction.
Briana Arreaga is a Chemistry major and RISE and LSAMP Fellow. She joined Aug. 2018-Aug. 2023 and is making Ni catalysts.
Mari Faller Joined the group in Jun.-Aug. 2023 as part of the community college SURE program. She is studying electrochemical CO2 reduction.
Daanish Noor Joined the group in Jun.-Aug. 2023 as part of the community college SURE program. He is studying CO2 reduction.
Anisha Bharadwaj Joined the group in Jun.-Aug. 2023 as part of the community college SURE program. She is studying electrochemical CO2 reduction.
Dr. Andressa Antonini Bertolazzo Joined the group in Sept. 2022-Jun. 2023 as a PLUTO postdoctoral fellow in the STARS program. She studied crystallography and is now tenure-track faculty at Weber State University.
Demi Ayala Joined the group in Oct. 2022-Aug. 2023 as a Master's student. She is studying ethanol uptake in bacteria.
Caitlyn Cruz is Biology major, RIO fellow, and joined the group in Sept. 2021-May 2023. They worked on crystallography at CO2 reduction. Started PhD program at UC Irvine.
Neil Dudeja joined the group in Oct. 2019-May 2023 and is studying crystallography.
Sage Gorney is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Sept. 2018-May 2023. She computes XES of Cu NOR intermediates.
Carlos Gutierrez is Master's student and joined the group in Oct. 2021-May 2023. He worked on crystallography.
Dinh Ho joined the group in Jan. 2022, and synthesizes bis(imidazolium) salts.
Mei Matsumoto is Chemistry major and joined the group in Oct. 2020. She is working on crystallography.
Zachary Tam is a Master's student and joined the group in Oct. 2021. He does computational chemistry.
Christian LeRue is Master's student and joined the group in Jan. 2022. He is making lanthanide complexes with bidentate NHC ligands.
Winn Huynh is Chemistry Posdoctoral Scholar through the STARS program, and joined the group Jun.-Aug. 2022.
Hellen Marin is in the STARS program and joined the group Jan. - May 2022 and synthesized bis(imidazolium) salts.
Kimberly Olivares is Chemistry major, NSF SPIRES fellow, and joined the group in Sept. 2021-May 2022. She synthesized bis(imidazolium) salts.
Justin Tabay Cortez, BS in Chemistry at CPP, now doing his teaching credential and MS. He joined March 2016-May 2022.
Nicole Avila is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Feb. 2020-May 2022. She computationally studies Ni nitrosyls.
Kevin Liang is a Master's candidate and joined the group in Feb. 2019-Aug. 2021 and makes nickel complexes.
Emily Thompson is a Chemistry major and LSAMP Fellow. She joined Sept. 2018-Dec. 2020 and makes Fe complexes.
Adrian Torres is a Chemistry major and LSAMP Fellow. He joined the group in June 2019-May 2021. He works with Co and Fe. He is now doing a Chemistry PhD at U. Georgia.
Zijie Zhang is a Chemistry major and NSF SPIRES Fellow. She joined in March 2017-May 2021. She makes Ni nitrosyl complexes. She is now in PharmD program at UNC Chapel Hill.
Jocelyn Maragno is a Master's candidate and joined the group in Dec. 2017-Jan. 2020 and conducts computations of V clusters.
Elisa Olivas is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Nov. 2019-Aug. 2021. She is studying crystallography. She is now in Chemistry PhD program at UC Irvine.
Carlos Gutierrez is Chemistry major and joined the group in Jun. 2019-Dec. 2020. He computes XES spectra of copper hyponitrites.
Brenda Henriquez is a Master's candidate who joined in Jun. 2019-May 2021 and studies X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
Alexis Hoxie is a Chemistry major and LSAMP Fellow. She joined in Jan. 2018-May 2021 and is making Fe-NO complexes.
Evan Bonnand is a Biotechnology major and joined the group in Sept. 2019-May 2021. He is making Fe nitrosyls. He is now in Chemistry PhD program at UT Dallas.
Jacob P. Brannon is a Master's candidate and joined the group in Aug. 2018-Aug. 2020. He is the group crystallographer. He is in Chemistry PhD program at Florida State U.
Hector Alarcon. Feb. 2016-Oct. 2017 (B.S. Biology), McNair Scholar, Kellogg Presidential Fellow, and LSAMP fellow. Was a lab technician at Ecolab, now at UCSF dental school.
Jessica De la Huerta Oct.-Dec. 2019. She is studying crystallography.
Deandrea Dolberry Winter-Summer 2016, second-year Chemical Engineer.
Efren Gonzalez Summer 2016 student from Citrus College. Currently at UC Berkeley.
Rene Gutierrez Summer 2016 student from Citrus College. At University of LaVerne.
Chris Lee Fall 2016-Summer 2017, Master's candidate.
Tiffany Lopez Sept. 2017-June 2018 (M.S. Chemistry). Joint student with Dr. Barding.
Karlos Manzanarez Summer 2017 student from Cypress Community College. Now at UCLA.
Amanda Nguyen Summer 2017 student from Cypress Community College. Currently at UC Irvine.
Johnathan Pham Spring 2017, Chemistry major.
Ricardo Rodriguez June-July 2017, Chemical Engineering major.
Jonathan Stoffel June 2016 - June 2018 (B.S. Chemistry), LSAMP Fellow. Currently Ph.D. Candidate at Notre Dame.
Jason Chiang is a Computer Science major.
Ricardo Tan Jan. 2018-Dec. 2018. Currently a chemistry at the City of Los Angeles.
Carlos Yamamoto September 2017-May 2019 (B.S. Chemistry). Currently in the military.
Matthew Nakatomi Jan. 2017-May 2019 (B.S. Kinesiology).
Phan Phu February 2016-December 2018 (B.S. Chemistry) winner 2017 Goldstein Research Award. Ph.D. Candidate at UC Irvine.
Erica Hummel Sept. 2018-Jun. 2019 (M.S. Chemistry) joint with Dr. Barding. She has worked on a publication with the Stieber Lab.
Luc Frost-Neto was a high school student in the group Summer 2019. He worked with lanthanides.
Kyle Covington is from Cypress Community College and joined Summer 2019. He worked with dysprosium.
Andria Luna is from Cypress Community College and joined the group Summer 2019. She worked with lanthanum.
Madeline Ontiveros goes to Bonita High School and joined the group Summer 2019. She worked with lanthanides.
Thomas Phan is from Cypress Community College and joined the group Summer 2019. He worked with gadolinium.
Beverly Stretch is a Chemistry major and RISE Fellow. She joined the group in Jan. 2017-Dec. 2019 and made V complexes.
Karen Juarez is a Chemistry major. She joined Sept. 2018 - June 2020 and studied Ni oxidative additions.
Stephanie Rodriguez is a Chemistry major and joined the group in Oct. 2019 - Jun. 2020. She is studying crystallography.
Fall 2015: Sylvia Speights (Master student)