PI: Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova

Anastassia is Charles W. Clifford Jr. Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, and professor of Materials Science and Engineering. She 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). In 2024 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Tel: +1 (310) 825-3769
Email: alexandrova@g.ucla.edu

	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 Weng, 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
	Dr. Yulan Han, Postdoctoral Associate Yulan obtained her Ph.D. in the gorup of Peijun Hu, in Queen's University Belfast, UK. Project: Reactive CO₂ capture. Heterogeneous catalysis. E-mail: 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: Lanthanide-based molecules for QIS. 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
	Ashley Petersen, Graduate Student Ashley got his B.S. degree in the Villanova University, where she did research in organic chemistry. Project: Electrostatics in biology: from enzymes to antimicrobials. 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
	Junwei He, Graduate Student Junwei got his B.S. degree from Peking University in China. He spent some time in Rice University, group of Boris Yakobson. Project: Topoloical materials interfaces for catalysis and electronic devices Email: here
	Avital Isakov, Graduate Student Avital got her B.S. degree from Washington University in Ls. Louis, where she did undergraduate research with Prof. Robert Wexler. She also did an internship in NREL workin with Dr. Mai-Anh Ha. Project: Fluxionality in thermal catalysis Email: here
	Yu Wei, Graduate Student Yu got her B.S. degree from Shandong Normal University, and her M.S. from Beijing Normal University and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Jia Zhu. Project: Thermal effects in electrocatalysis and corrosion Email: here
	Arwen Cai, Graduate Student Arwen obtained their B.S. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She is jointly supervised with Prof. Paula Diaconescu. Project: Machine learning for polymerisation catalysis Email: here
	Jake Erbez, Graduate Student Jake obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, where he did research with Prof. Michael Toney. Project: Degradation of heterogeneous catalysts Email: here
	Hiran Jayasekara, Undergraduate Student Project: Articial metalloenzyme design
	Jiayi (Bonnie) Qian, Undergraduate Student Project: Electric fields in enzymes
	Cornelius Project: Oxytocin generation