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
	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
	Nathaniel Johnston, Graduate Student Nathaniel obtained his B.S. degree in Westmont College in California. Project: Design of artificial metalloenzymes. Email: here
	Cecilia Chang, Graduate Student, NSF-UCLA Quantum Science and Engineering Fellow Cecilia obtained his B.S. degree in Cornell University, where she also did reaserach with Nandini Ananth. Project: Design of molecular qubits. 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
	Taras Khvorost, Graduate Student 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 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
	Lucas Tecot, CS Graduate Student Project: Lucas is a lab affitiate, attacking chemistry problems with the tools of machine learning, while working on his Ph.D. in computer science. Email: here
	Tom Hong, Undergraduate Student Project: Sintering mechanism and prevention in cluster catalysis. Email: here
	Elise Tran, Undergraduate Student Project: Genotoxicity of unclassified PAHs. Email: here
	Edison Cummings, Undergraduate Student Project: Selectivity in catalysis on surface-supported fluxional clusters Email: here
	Samuel Greenbank, Exchange Undergraduate Student Samuel joined us for 1 year as a visiting student from the University of Matchester, UK. Project: Reactive CO₂ capture Email: here
	Dylan Karkainen, Undergraduate Student Project: Reactive CO₂ air capture
	Jack Cokas, Undergraduate Student Project: Cluster catalyst sintering and deactivation
	Mia Calvillo, Undergraduate Student Project: Molecular qubits