BEDIAKO LAB
ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF 2D LAYERS | 2D MAGNETISM | TWISTRONICS
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Group photo (May 2024)
Members
Principal Investigator
Kwabena Bediako
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
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Ph.D. Harvard University (2015)
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
B.S. Calvin College (2008)
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D87 Hildebrand Hall
Postdoctoral Scholars
Ariana Ray
Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University (2024)
B.A. Physics, Columbia University (2017)
ariana.ray[at]berkeley.edu
Kelly Walsh
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow (2025)
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Washington (2024)
B.S. Chemistry, UT Austin (2018)
kmwalsh[at]berkeley.edu
Graduate Students
Oscar Gonzalez
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2020)
UCB Chancellor's Fellow (2020)
B.S. Chemistry, Texas A&M University (2020)
oscargon1234[at]berkeley.edu
Isaac Craig
Co-advised by Dr. Sinéad M. Griffin
NDSEG Fellow (2022)
Berkeley Graduate Fellow (2020)
B.S. Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2020)
craigi[at]berkeley.edu
Sonal Maroo
M.S. Chemistry, IIT Madras (2017)
sonal_maroo[at]berkeley.edu
Shannon Fender
B.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2019)
M.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2020)
sfender[at]berkeley.edu
Garrett Hegel
B.S. Chemistry, MIT (2022)
Berkeley Graduate Fellow (2022)
ghegel[at]berkeley.edu
Meg Takezawa
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2024)
B.S. Chemistry, UW (2024)
meg_takezawa[at]berkeley.edu
Katherine Hinds
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, UW (2024)
khinds[at]berkeley.edu
Madelaine Dolich
B.A. Chemistry, Barnard College (2024)
mdolich[at]berkeley.edu
Undergraduate & Postbaccalureate Students
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David Sherer
UC Berkeley
Auday Askar Ahmed
UC Berkeley
Jenna Qasqas
UC Berkeley
Phillis Wan
UC Berkeley
Dilsi Bhagat
UC Berkeley
Michelle Roebuck
UC Berkeley
Past Members
Graduate Students
Matthew Erodici, Ph.D. 2019-2025 | Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University
Zhizhi Kong, Ph.D. 2019-2024 | Lam Research
Kaidi (Ted) Zhang, Ph.D. 2019-2024 | J.D. Student at Berkeley Law
Samra Husremovic, Ph.D. 2018-2024 | Postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University
Madeline Van Winkle, Ph.D. 2018-2024 | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jonathon Nessralla, Ph.D. 2018-2023 | SmarAct Inc.
Valerie McGraw, Ph.D. 2019-2023 | U.S. Department of Agriculture
Postdoctoral Scholars
Lilia Xie, Ph.D. 2020-2024 | Assistant Professor at Princeton
Ellis Kennedy, Ph.D. 2023 | Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathon Nessralla, Ph.D. 2023 | SmarAct Inc.
Xiaoyu Song, Ph.D. 2022-2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University
Iwnetim (Tim) Abate, Ph.D. 2021-2022 | Assistant Professor at MIT
Berit Goodge, Ph.D. 2022 | Schmidt Fellow, Minerva Group Leader at Max Planck Institute
Kate Groschner, Ph.D. 2021-2022 | Form Energy
Yun Yu, Ph.D. 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor at George Mason University
Undergraduate & Postbaccalaureate Researchers
Mingrui Li 2023-2025 | Graduate student at Columbia
Linda Zhang 2022-2025 | Graduate student at MIT
Yizhe Wang 2022-2025
Sadie Asker 2024-2025 | Northrop Grumman
Philipp Letman 2024 | Continuing undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin
Luis Fernando Esteva Sueiro 2024
Bryan J. Kim 2020-2024 | Graduate student at MIT
Amani Malik 2023-2024 | Postbaccalaureate researcher at UCI
Alberto Mier 2022-2023 | Pacific Biolabs, Inc.
Swathy Natarajan 2022-2023 | Schneider Electric
Cameron Mollazadeh 2020-2023 | Graduate student at CU Boulder
Nikita Dowlatshahi 2021-2023
Nikta Khaloo 2021-2023
Rocky Hughes 2022-2023 | Graduate student at UCSD
Simon Li 2022-2023 | Antora Energy
Ana-Teresa Mendoza 2022 | Graduate Student at Notre Dame
Elena Belk 2021-2022 | Graduate Research Intern at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Jacob Syndikus 2020-2021 | M.S. student at Universität Würzburg
Elijah Sherratt 2019-2020 | Visolis Inc.
Artur Lyssenko 2019-2020 | Graduate student at Harvard
Zoe Durbin 2019-2020
Nathanael Kazmierczak 2019 | Graduate student at Caltech
Samantha Stegman 2018-2019 | Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Information on joining the group can be found here.