Bradley is a second-year graduate student in Chemi cal Engineering. He received his B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas. As an undergrad he did research on hydrogel characterization and synthesis for drug delivery applications in Professor Stevin Gehrke's lab. His current research is focused on molecular dynamic simulation of soft matter and systems studied by the Liu Lab.

Yuqi received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Fudan University, China. Then she obtained her MS in Engineering Management from Duke University. After graduation, she worked as a scientist for Baebies, Inc. Her work focus was on diagnostic assay development for newborn screening on the digital microfluidics system.

She joined the group in January, 2020.

Fun fact about Yuqi: She can open a bottle of wine without a cork screw.

Matthew Owen is a Ph.D candidate in the Chemistry Department at UC Davis.

B.S. - Chemistry from UC Berkeley - 2017

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Dr. Don T. Tilley’s Inorganic Group at UC Berkeley (2015-2017): Synthesis and characterization of cobalt and manganese based cubanes and Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). The purpose of this research was to design a better heterogeneous catalyst for water oxidation, tuned by synthetically designed ligands. The synthesis of these compounds involved air-free Schlenk techniques and use of gloveboxes, and the characterization of these complexes involved Cyclic Voltammetry, NMR, MS, Elemental Analysis, column chromatography and X-Ray Crystallography.

RESEARCH GOALS: Developing techniques to determine the structure of proteins using Scanning Probe Microcopy and also understanding conformational changes in proteins with respect to ion perturbation. Synthesis of nanomaterials and studying the physical chemistry of these materials on surfaces.

Hobbies: Fishing, Hanging out with family, reading books and watching/playing sports.

AUDREY PASSED HER QE JUNE 10th, 2016!

Audrey received her B.S. at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. As an undergrad, she worked with Dr. Parastoo Hashemi and specialized in the detection of heavy metals in aqueous systems using Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry. Her current research interests include the fabrication of nano materials, with a particular interest in materials or methods that can be used to address energy and environmental concerns. 

In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, DIY crafts, and building Ikea furniture.

VICTORIA PASSED HER QE NOVEMBER 7th, 2016!

Victoria Tran is a Ph.D candidate in the Chemistry Department at UC Davis. She received her B.S. in Chemistry and Biological Science at UC Irvine in 2012. After graduating from UC Irvine, she worked in the PCR Department at IGenex, Inc., a licensed laboratory specializing in molecular testing for infectious disease. Her research at IGeneX involved the optimization of Plasmodium falciparium and Plasmodium vivax as well as detecting several species of the Borrelia family by performing southern dot blot. In addition to working at IGeneX, she performed research under Professor Terill at San Jose State University, which involved the synthesis and characterization of silver shell encasing gold nanoparticles. In 2015, she joined Professor Gang-yu Liu's group at UC Davis.

 

 

Minyuan is a graduate student in Ag Chem.

 

 

YUNBO PASSED HERQ&E NOVEMBER2019

Yunbo received her B.S. in Chemistry at Nanjing University in China. As an undergraduate, she researched using solid-state NMR method to characterize materials in Professor Luming Peng’s group on materials and NMR. In 2017, she joined Professor Gang-yu Liu’s group at UC Davis.