People
Stefan Minasian
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1346-7497
Web of Science ResearcherID: A-9887-2018
B.A. in Chemistry, Reed College (2002). Thesis Advisor: Prof. Margret Geselbracht
Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2009). Thesis Advisor: Prof. John Arnold
Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2009-2013). Co-Advisors: David Clark, Stosh Kozimor, and David Shuh
Postdocs
Patrick Smith
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-4895
Patrick received his B.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego where he performed undergraduate research with Prof. Joshua Figueroa. He completed his Ph.D. with Prof. T. Don Tilley at UC Berkeley, where he studied unsaturated interactions between group 8 and group 14 elements. Patrick was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Yogesh Surendranath at MIT. He is currently researching molecular quantum materials based on organolanthanide and organoactinide complexes.
Bianca Schacherl
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4542-0108
Bianca Schacherl received her BSc in chemistry from Universty of Konstanz, Germany before she started her MSc and PhD at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany on “Advancing actinide high-energy resolution X-ray absorption/emission spectroscopic tools”. She explored several directions of radiochemistry during research stays in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and Los Alamos National Lab and joined LBL in 2023 for a joint Post-Doc with the Minasian and Abergel groups.
Graduate Students
Dominic Russo
dominic_russo@berkeley.edu
ORCiD: enter
Dominic completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry with Prof. Henry La Pierre at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dominic is co-advised by Prof. Jeffrey Long at UC Berkeley.
Jacob Branson
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3523-0303
Jacob received his B.S. in chemistry from Florida State University in May of 2019. During his undergraduate, he worked on the synthesis and characterization of f-element molecular compounds with Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart. Jacob is co-advised by Prof. John Arnold at UC Berkeley.
Sheridon Kelly
ORCiD: enter
Sheridon received her B.S. in chemistry and B.A. in history from Colorado State University in May 2020. As an undergraduate, she studied surface-interface interactions of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with Dr. Amber Krummel. Sheridon is co-advised by Prof. John Arnold at UC Berkeley.
