

BEDIAKO LAB
ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF 2D LAYERS | 2D MAGNETISM | TWISTRONICS

Group photo (April 2022)
Members
Principal Investigator
Kwabena Bediako
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Ph.D. Harvard University (2015)
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
B.S. Calvin College (2008)
820 Latimer Hall
Postdoctoral Scholars

Lilia Xie
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Chemistry, MIT (2020)
A.B. Chemistry, Princeton University (2014)
liliaxie[at]berkeley.edu

Kate Groschner
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley (2021)
MPhil Energy Technologies, University of Cambridge (2016)
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
cgroschner[at]berkeley.edu
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Iwnetim (Tim) Abate
Miller and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
(co-hosted with Prof. Mark Asta)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University (2021)
B.S. Physics, Minnesota State University Moorhead (2015)

Berit Goodge
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Applied Physics, Cornell University (2022)
B.A. Physics, Carleton College (2016)
berit[at]berkeley.edu
Graduate Students

Valerie McGraw
B.A. Chemistry, Grinnell College (2017)
vmcgraw[at]berkeley.edu

Madeline Van Winkle
B.S. Chemistry, Denison University (2018)
vanwinkle_madeline[at]berkeley.edu

Zhizhi Kong
B.S. Chemistry, Wuhan University (2016)
M.S. Mat. Sci., Northwestern University (2018)
zhizhi_kong[at]berkeley.edu

Sonal Maroo
M.S. Chemistry, IIT Madras (2017)
sonal_maroo[at]berkeley.edu

Jonathon Nessralla
B.A. Chemistry, Harvard University (2018)
jnessralla[at]berkeley.edu

Matthew Erodici
B.S. Chemistry, Wesleyan University (2019)
matthew_erodici[at]berkeley.edu

Oscar Gonzalez
B.S. Chemistry, Texas A&M University (2020)
oscargon1234[at]berkeley.edu

Shannon Fender
B.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2019)
M.S. Chemistry, University of Oregon (2020)
sfender[at]berkeley.edu

Samra Husremovic
B.S. Chemistry, Bates College (2018)
samra_husremovic[at]berkeley.edu

Kaidi (Ted) Zhang
B.S. Chemistry, Northwestern University (2019)
navi1996[at]berkeley.edu

Isaac Craig
B.S. Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2020)
craigi[at]berkeley.edu
Undergraduate Students

Bryan Kim
UC Berkeley

Rocky Hughes
UC Berkeley

Ana-Teresa Mendoza
UC Irvine

Cameron Mollazadeh
UC Berkeley
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Nikita Dowlatshahi
UC Berkeley

Swathy Natarajan
UC Berkeley

Alberto Mier
UC Berkeley
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Nikta Khaloo
UC Berkeley
Simon Li
UC Berkeley
Past Members
Postdoctoral Scholars
Yun Yu 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor at George Mason University
Undergraduate Researchers
Elena Belk 2021-2022 | M.S. student at University of Oregon
Jacob Syndikus 2020-2021 | M.S. student at Universität Würzburg
Elijah Sherratt 2019-2020 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley
Artur Lyssenko 2019-2020 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley
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.