Principle Investigator
Dr. Jerry LaRue
B.A. in Chemistry at Willamette University
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Studies at Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Postdoctoral Scholars
Bingjie Zhang
Ph.D. in Chemistry at Stony Brook University
About: Bingjie focuses on design, synthesis, characterization and application of transitional metal-based materials and carbon materials, including metals, transitional metal oxides, nitrides and graphite. She study the materials as catalysts, as well as electrodes in energy storage devices.
Chapman Students
Kevin Alvarado
Major: Chemistry
Abby Bechtel
Major: Physics
About: Abby is working on a project looking at directional asymmetry within an interferometer to enhance current optical metrology techniques.
Brandon Camp
Major: Physics
Chelsey Cortes
Major:Biochemistry
Stephanie Hoang
Major:Biochemistry
Nousha Karimi
Major:Biochemistry
Jessie Le
Major: Chemistry
Quy Le
Major:Chemistry
Davis Mau
Major: Biochemistry
David Nguyen
Major:Chemistry
Salvatore Portera
Major: Physics
About: I am interested in the world around us and how it all works. I wish to acquire as much knowledge and skill as I can through my physics undergraduate studies. I currently work in Chapman’s Physics Outreach where we will be conducting demonstrations for the new generation of Physicists. In Catlab Research, I am working with a team of Optical Meteorologists in order to create an inexpensive Interferometer. Once I am done, I will continue to search for more experiences and opportunities to expand reality in a way that would allow me to better understand it.
Jackson Ramler
Major:
Kacie Sakamaki
Major: Biology
Andrea Sandoval
Major:
Ishaan Shah
Major: Chemistry
About: A chemistry major researching how photoexcitation can enhance the property of chemical selectivity of metal nanoparticles.
Jason Yoon
Major: Biology
About: I am a freshman biology major helping to create a vacuum chamber to test and study metal catalysts and what exactly happens during certain reactions. It’s pretty neat!
Gary Zeri
Major: Computer Science
About: Computer Science student interested in computational simulations. Current CatLab project involves designing and implementing pedagogical Computational Chemistry programs to illustrate how to perform such calculations as well as to demonstrate the underlying chemical principles of said simulations.
Aviv Zohman
Major: Software Engineering
About: I am synthesizing graphene – a revolutionary nanomaterial – using top-down and bottom-up techniques.
Non-Chapman Students
Camille Duong-Zamora
Major: Biotech
About: A Biotechnology student participating in the development of instrument control and data acquisition through LabView.
Lidia Malina
Major:
Gloria Martinez
Major: Chemical Engineering
Matt Rangel
Major: