Faculty

Christopher Bates

Associate Professor
Materials
UC Santa Barbara

We are interested in the design, synthesis, and characterization of soft materials.

Irene Chen

Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Los Angeles

Boelter 4531K
We study life-like biochemical systems to understand their fundamental properties and address emerging challenges in biotechnology and infectious disease.

Dino Di Carlo

Professor
Bioengineering
UC Los Angeles

5121E Engineering V
The Di Carlo Lab uses micro & nanoscale technology to study and engineer biology at its ultimate limits.

Paula Diaconescu

Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Los Angeles

Organometallic chemistry for rational block copolymer synthesis

Abigail Doyle

Professor
UC Los Angeles

MSB 3515
We conduct research at the interface of organic, organometallic, and physical organic chemistry, enhanced by modern data science and machine learning.

Glenn Fredrickson

Distinguished Professor
Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

3105 MRL Building
The Fredrickson group has pioneered a new class of computer simulation techniques based on molecularly-informed statistical field theories. Such field-theoretic simulations enable the investigation of classical soft material and quantum many-body systems at an unprecedented range of length and timescales.

Miguel Garcia-Garibay

Dean of Physical Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Los Angeles

Our group aims at advancing the field of organic solid-state chemistry by taking advantage of the reduced entropy and emergent properties that characterize the crystalline solid state.

Mengyang Gu

Assistant Professor
Statistics and Applied Probability
UC Santa Barbara

Uncertainty quantification, surrogate models, inverse design, stochastic processes, and data science.

Craig Hawker

Co-PI, NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
Professor
Materials, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
UC Santa Barbara

3005 MRL
Preparing, educating and inspiring the next generation.

Matt Helgeson

Professor
Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

3337 Engineering II
Prof. Helgeson is an expert in rheological and structural characterization of soft materials, including the development of new high-throughput methods for microrheology.

Heather Maynard

Co-Director, NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
Professor
Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering
UC Los Angeles

Maynard and her group synthesize novel functional polymers for applications in biomaterials, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.

Carrie Mills

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
UC Santa Barbara

Bioengineering 3004
The Mills lab engineers and studies protein assemblies and materials to create accessible, bioengineered solutions in spaces like plastic waste degradation and oral vaccine delivery.

Aditya Nandy

Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
UC Los Angeles

Boelter Hall Room 4667
We use simulations and machine learning to gain molecular level insights and develop testable hypotheses.

Angela Pitenis

Assistant Professor
Materials
UC Santa Barbara

We design, synthesize, and characterize soft bio-inspired materials.

Javier Read de Alaniz

Director, NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Santa Barbara

PSBN 1631-D
His research group seeks creative, synthetic solutions to problems at the interface of chemistry and material science.

Jose Rodriguez

Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Los Angeles

103 Boyer Hall
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry focused on structure-based scientific discovery.

Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
UC Los Angeles

Our lab develops computational and theoretical methods for automation, synthesis prediction, and materials design.

Rachel Segalman

Vice Chancellor for Research
Edward N. Kramer Professor
Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

3353A Engineering II
Bioinspired polymer synthesis and self-assembly to control properties.

M. Scott Shell

Professor
Chemical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

Engineering II 3321
Prof. Shell develops novel molecular simulation, multiscale modeling, and statistical thermodynamic approaches to address problems in contemporary biophysics and soft condensed matter.

Samanvaya Srivastava

Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
UC Los Angeles

Boelter Hall 5531-D
We harness electrostatic and other non-covalent intermolecular interactions to design self-assembled soft materials.

Yi Tang

Co-PI, NSF BioPACIFIC MIP
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Los Angeles

My research lab is interested in natural product biosynthesis and biocatalysis.

Megan Valentine

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara

Soft material mechanics, design and manufacturing of bio-inspired materials, adhesion, rheology, instrument development .

Xifeng Yan

Professor
Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

Henley Hall, Room 2017
The primary objective of my research is to explore foundational models in artificial intelligence, customize these models for data mining, and examine their application across domains such as finance, healthcare, and science. Historically, we have made significant advancements in graph data mining and we have inadvertently pioneered the use of Transformer-based methods in time series forecasting.