PI: Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova

Anastassia obtained her B.S./M.S. degree with highest honors from Saratov State University (Russia), in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physical Chemistry from Utah State University, in 2005. She was a Postdoctoral Associate, and then an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. Anastassia joined the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, and CNSI in 2010. She is a recipient of numerous awards, such as NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship 2013, DARPA Young Faculty Award 2011, Fulbright Fellowship 2016, ACS WCC Rising Star Award 2016, 2020 ACS Phys Early Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry, 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt medal, as well as UCLA undergraduate research mentorship award 2018, and 2019 distinguished teaching award (the highest honor for teaching given in UCLA).

Tel: +1 (310) 825-3769
Email: ana@chem.ucla.edu

	Dr. Derek Urwin, Adjunct Assistant Professor Derek completed his M.S. work in applied math, in UCLA, and his Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry in this lab. Derek leads a research program on chemical toxicology, carcinogenes, and health of firefighters, and remains part of our group, now as a collaborator. His primary job is serving the public as a fire fighter with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He also serves as Chief Science Advisor at the IAF. E-mail: here
	Dr. Harry Morgan, Postdoctoral Associate Harry obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Inorganic Chemistry, from the University of Oxford, UK, group of Prof. John McGrady. Project: Understading and taming fluxionality of supported cluster catalysts. Strongly correlated materials. Chemical bonding. E-mail: here
	Dr. Shobhit Chaturvedi, Postdoctoral Associate Shobhit obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University, group of Prof. Christo Christov. Project: Understanding the role of the protein scaffold in enzymatic catalysis. E-mail: here
	Dr. Gwen Wong, Postdoctoral Associate Gwen obtained his Ph.D. from UCSB, group of Prof. Vojtech Vlcek. Project: Topological catalysis. E-mail: here
	Dr. Yonghyuk Lee, Postdoctoral Associate Yonghyuk obtained his Ph.D. in the gorup of Karsten Reuter, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany. Project: Dynamics driving heterogeneous catalysis: activity, selectivity, and degradation. Machine learning models for catalysis. E-mail: here
	Zisheng Zhang, Graduate Student, Dean's Scholar Zisheng graduated from SUSTech in China, where he was an undergraduate researcher with Prof. Jun Li. He also spent a summer in our group in UCLA as a CSST Scholar, during his undergraduate studies. Projects: Dynamic heterogeneous catalytic and electro-catalytic interfaces, fundamental theory and variety of applications. Email: here
	Santiago Vargas, Graduate Student, Competitive Edge Scholar, DOE Graduate Fellow Santiago graduated from Harvard where he did research with Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Project: ML for enzymology, catalysis, drug discovery, and - you name it, basically. Email: here
	Claire Dickerson, Graduate Student, NSF Fellow Claire graduated from the University of Rochester, and had internships in Schrodinger Inc., and the University of Sydney, before joining UCLA. Project: Molecular qubits beyond a few atoms in size. Email: here
	Robert Lavroff, Graduate Student, NSF Fellow Rob graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Project: Strongly correlated functional materials and interfaces, development of embedding electronic structure techniques. Rob is co-supervised with Dr. Denis Usvyat (Humboldt University, Berlin). Email: here
	Winston Gee, Graduate Student Winston graduated from the Westmont College. He is jointly supervised with Abby Doyle. Project: Dynamic electrocatalytic interfaces, CO2RR, reactive CO₂ capture. Email: here
	Will Laderer, Graduate Student, NSF-UCLA Quantum Science and Engineering Fellow Will got his B.S. degree in Stony Brook University. Project: Functional quantum materials. Email: here
	Pavel Rublev, Graduate Student Pavel got his B.S./M.S. degree in Moscow State University, he then worked on his Ph.D. with Prof. Alexander Boldyrev at Utah State University, and now continues in our group. Project: TBD Email: here
	Taras Khvorost, Graduate Student, NSF-UCLA Quantum Science and Engineering Fellow Taras got his B.S. degree in St. Petersburg State University, and his M.S. in ITMO University - group of Evgeny Pidko. Project: Chemistry of QIS. Email: here
	Pujan Ajmera, Graduate Student, NSF-UCLA Quantum Science and Engineering Fellow Pujan got his B.S. degree in the University of Michigan. Project: Role of electric and magnetic fields in governing quantum processes in biology. Email: here
	Shawn Chiu, Graduate Student Shawn got his B.S. degree in Columbia University. Project: Reactive CO₂ capture. Email: here
	Anubhav Goswami, Graduate Student Anubhav got his B.S. degree in IISc Bengaluru, India. Project: Electric fields in natural and artificial enzymes Email: here
	Daniel Guion, Graduate Student Daniel got his B.S. degree in the University of Washington, and spent a few years in biotech industry before joining UCLA. Project: Electric fields across enzyme classes Email: here
	Ryan Choi, Graduate Student Ryan got his B.S. degree in the University of Chicago, where he did research with David Mazziotti. Project: Molecular qubits and quantum sensors Email: here
	Ferdawss Ihiri, Graduate Student Ferdawss got her B.S. degree in the College of Wooster, majoring in chemistry and minoring in computer science. She is jointly supervised by Miguel Garcia-Garibay. Project: Photoactive molecular crystals Email: here
	Elise Tran, Undergraduate Student Project: Genotoxicity of unclassified PAHs. Elise is co-supervised by Prof. Derek Urwin. Email: here
	Jack Cokas, Undergraduate Student Project: Cluster catalyst sintering and deactivation
	Hiran Jayasekara, Undergraduate Student Project: Articial metalloenzyme design
	Jiayi (Bonnie) Qian, Undergraduate Student Project: Electric fields in enzymes
	Sophie Kogan, Undergraduate Student Project: Chemical bonding in materials