lbgee@ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-7190

Leland Gee
Former Graduate Student

Leland B. Gee is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. biophysics Ph.D student at the University of California, Davis. His background includes a PhD in Biophysics, B.S. in Biochemistry, a B.A. in Economics, and work experience as a computer programmer. Upon completion of his undergraduate degrees in 2011, Leland worked at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, at U.C. Davis, as a laboratory supervisor and then as a computer programmer focusing mainly on database design and user interfaces in a scientific context. In Cramer's group, Leland performed numerous spectroscopic techniques: fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance, 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, 61Ni MÃ¶ssbauer spectroscopy, and nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy. He also developed skills to interpret the many techniques, including training in: density functional theory, molecular dynamics, and empirical forcefield analysis.

Michael Lerche
Staff Member

Michael Lerche joined the Cramer group in 2015 as a staff scientist. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 at the Universität Hamburg, Germany where he was working on x-ray optics to improve Synchrotron Mössbauer Spectroscopy experiments at HASYLAB. His post-doctoral position with the University of Illinois at Urban Champaign started his interest in high pressure physics. His current research interests are the structural and dynamical properties of liquids and amorphous metals.

Aubrey Scott
Applied Science Graduate Student

PhD, University of California, Davis
Education Washington University in St. Louis B.A. Physics 2008.

Aubrey's current research involves spectroscopy of enzymes with metallic clusters as active sites, including nitrogenase and acetyl-CoA synthase. He uses a combination of FTIR and EPR spectroscopy in the labs at Davis, as well as EXAFS and NRVS methods at synchrotron radiation facilities such as SSRL in Menlo Park, CA and Spring-8 in Japan. In the case of both enzymes, he is interested in how substrates bind to the active sites, and what changes these metal clusters undergo during catalysis. His long-term interests are in green technology, particularly sustainable energy and chemical production.

lfyan@ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-1026

Lifen Yan
Applied Sciences Graduate

Previous Projects:
Studied the structure and dynamic process of CO bound Nitrogenase and related nitrogen bound model compounds, by vibrational spectroscopy from multiple spectral techniques, like NRVS (nuclear resonant vibrational spectroscopy), FPPS (femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy), Raman, and FTIR.
Lifen's dissertation is available through this link.

Projects:
â€¢ FT-IR CO-N2ase photolysis

fponce@ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-7190

Francisco Ponce
Physics Graduate Student

Graduate Student - Physics
BA in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley 2007
MS in Physics from San Francisco State University 2012
My primary research interest is the development of superconducting and semiconducting technology for the study of materials.