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
Joern Bannies
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of British Columbia (2025)
B.S. Chemistry, TU Dresden, Germany (2019)
B.S. Chemistry, TU Dresden, Germany (2017)
jbannies[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
Garrett Hegel
B.S. Chemistry, MIT (2022)
Berkeley Graduate Fellow (2022)
ghegel[at]berkeley.edu
Madelaine Dolich
B.A. Chemistry, Barnard College (2024)
mdolich[at]berkeley.edu
Katherine Hinds
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, UW (2024)
khinds[at]berkeley.edu
Ry Papadopoulos
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2025)
B.S. Chemistry. University of Chicago (2025)
rypapadopoulos[at]berkeley.edu
Undergraduate & Postbaccalureate Students
David Sherer
UC Berkeley
Michelle Roebuck
UC Berkeley
Phillis Wan
UC Berkeley
Dilsi Bhagat
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 | Graduate Student at MIT
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 | Graduate Student at University of Wisconsin–Madison
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 | Assistant Professor at Hope College
Samantha Stegman 2018-2019 | Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Information on joining the group can be found here.