The Paul Weiss Lab is an interdisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and clinicians with broad interests and collaborations around the world. Our goal is to research the ultimate limits of miniaturization to develop new chemical understanding of the physical and biological world. Welcome!
Faculty
Prof. Paul Weiss
UC Presidential Chair
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bioengineering, and Materials Science & Engineering
(psw >at< cnsi.ucla.edu)
Dr. Kris Barr
UCLA Teacher Scholar
(Kristopher.Barr >at< gmail.com)
Senior Staff & Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Avijit Baidya
(a.baidyaju >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Mahdi Hasani
(mahdi.hasani >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Tianhan Liu
(tianhanliu >at< g.ucla.edu)
Claire Meyer
(claireelsa.meyer >at< unibas.ch)
Graduate Students
Isaura Frost
(IFrost >at< mednet.ucla.edu)
Yao Gong
(echogy1900 >at< gmail.com)
Martin Hartel
(martinhartel557 >at< gmail.com)
Liv Heidenreich
(lheiden >at< ucla.edu)
Wenfei Liu
(wenfei95 >at< gmail.com)
Melina Mastrodimos
(mbmastrodimos >at< gmail.com)
Samantha T. Mensah
(mensah >at< ucla.edu)
Hossein Montazerian
(hmontazerian >at< g.ucla.edu)
Amir Nasajpour
(anasa >at< ucla.com)
Jun Shen
(junshen >at< ucla.edu)
Gail Vinnacombe
(gavinnacombe >at< ucla.edu)
Katie White
(kewhite1 >at< g.ucla.edu)
Undergraduate Students
Patrick Liu
(patricktqliu >at< gmail.com)
Rachel Ma
(mrachelm2020 >at< gmail.com)
Lauren Vuong
(laurvuong >at< g.ucla.edu)
Staff
Vivian Lee
Admin Assistant
(vlee>at< cnsi.ucla.edu)
Visitors
Prof. Tomas Base
The Czech Academy of Sciences
(tbase >at< iic.cas.cz)
Prof. Yingwei Yang
Jilin University
(ywyang >at< jlu.edu.)
Post-doctoral Fellows and Staff Alumni
Dr. John Abendroth
(jmabendroth >at< ucla.edu)
Prof. Maryam Badv
(maryam.badv >at < ucalgary.ca)
Lola Belsito
Former Staff
Dr. Joanne Bevilacqua
Former ACS Nano Staff
Steve Bumbarger
Former Staff
(sxb10 >at< psu.edu)
Prof. Lloyd A. Bumm
University of Oklahoma
(bumm >at< nhn.ou.edu)
Holly Bunje
ACS Nano
Journal Assistant
(holly.bunje >at< ucla.edu)
Prof. Ann-Sofie Cans
Chalmers University
(cans >at< chalmers.se)
Dr. Kevin Cheung
(cheung.m.kevin >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Naihao Chiang
(naihaochiang2012 >at< u.northwestern.edu)
George Chriss
Former Staff
(gschriss >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Shelley Claridge
Purdue University
(claridge >at< purdue.edu)
Dr. Anne Counterman
(anne.counterman >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Chris DeSantis
ACS Nano
Managing Editor
(managing.editor >at< nano.acs.org)
Prof. Luis C. Fernandez-Torres
Notre Dame University
(lcfcayey >at< yahoo.com)
Deepee Gerringer
Administrative Assistant and ACS Nano Journal Assistant
(deepee >at< cnsi.ucla.edu)
Prof. Susan Gillmor
National Institutes of Health
(sdgillmor >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Andrew Greenberg
University of Wisconsin
(greenberg >at< chem.wisc.edu)
Prof. Jennifer Hampton
Department of Physics
Hope College
Prof. Patrick Han
Assistant Professor
Tohoku University
(RISINGSUN262 >at< yahoo.com)
Dr. Anat Hatzor De Picciotto
Former Post-Doc and National Area Expert in
Chemical Advances in Nanolithography
(AnatD >at< pczlaw.com>)
Dr. Nate Hohman
University of Connecticut
(james.hohman >at< uconn.edu)
Hon Hoang
Design Media Administrator
(hon >at< cnsi.ucla.edu)
Prof. Xu Hou
Xiamen University
(houx >at< xmu.edu.cn)
Emily Indriolo
Former Staff Scientist
(eyi101 >at< psu.edu)
Prof. S. Alex Kandel
Department of Chemistry
Notre Dame University
(S.A.Kandel.1 >at< nd.edu)
Prof. Christine Dolan Keating
Department of Chemistry
Penn State University
(keating >at< chem.psu.edu)
Prof. Steven Jonas
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
(sjonas >at< ucla.edu)
Lisa Kawakami
(lmkawakami >at< chem.ucla.edu)
Prof. Kevin Kelly
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
(kkelly >at< rice.edu)
Dr. Jaemyung Kim
Merck
(jmyungkim >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Moonhee Kim
IBM Almaden Research Center and Stanford University
(moon219 >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Nina Kovtyukhova
Dr. Dongbo Li
Hitachi GST
(Dongbo.Li >at< hgst.com)
Dr. Li Shao Chun
Department of Physics
Nanjing University
(scli >at< nju.edu.cn or shaochun.li.stm >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Wei-Ssu Liao
Department of Chemistry
National Taiwan University
(wsliaochem >at< ntu.edu.tw)
Dr. Joe Meyer
(meyerja >at< aol.com)
Dr. Morgan Mihok
Former Staff Scientist
Kareem Morris
Administrative Assistant and ACS Nano Journal Assistant
(kareem >at< cnsi.ucla.edu)
Dr. Nako Nakatsuka
ETH Zürich
(nakatsuka > at < biomed.ee.ethz.ch)
Dr. Jae Park
ReCode Therapeutics
(jaep0827 >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Thomas P. Pearl
Dr. Sherman Ponder
Dr. Sara Rahimnejad
(sara.rahimnejad >at< gmail.com)
Matt Sandel
Former Staff Scientist
University of Washington
(mattsandel >at< yahoo.com)
Dr. Leonardo Scarabelli
(lscarabelli >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Liane Slaughter
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(slaughter>at
Prof. Charlie Sykes
Department of Chemistry
Tufts University
(Charles.Sykes >at< tufts.edu)
Dr. Logan Stewart
(logan.yah >at< gmail.com)
Jackie Lim-Piu Tan
Former Staff Scientist
Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka
Kyushu Institute of Technology
(tanaka >at< brain.kyutech.ac.jp)
Amy Whelpley
Former Staff Scientist
Prof. Wei Xu
Department of Physics
Tongji UniversityProf. Wei Xu
(xuwei >at< tongji.edu.cn)
Dr. Qing Yang
(qingyang1205 >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Tao Ye
University of California, Merced
(tao.ye >at< ucmerced.edu)
Dr. Thomas Young
(thomasdylanyoung >at< live.com)
Dr. Michael G. Yoshikawa Youngquist
(mgy >at< alumni.Caltech.edu)
Dr. Diana Yugay
(yugay >at< chem.ucla.edu)
Prof. Peng Peng Zhang
Department of Physics
Michigan State University
(zhang >at< pa.msu.edu)
Dr. Yuxi Zhao
Apple (seesea.zhao >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Yuebing Zheng
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
(yzz113 >at< gmail.com)
Graduate Student Alumni
Prof. Beth Anderson
Furman University
(maryelizabeth.anderson>at< furman.edu)
Jamie Arnold
Penn State
(jja5 >at< psu.edu)
Taylor Aubry
(tayloraubry >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Erin Avery
(erin.avery1 >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Heidi Bednar
College of the Canyons
(heidirenate >at< gmail.com)
Jason Belling
(jasonbelling >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Meaghan Blake
Dow Chemical
(ladyblakey >at< hotmail.com)
Dr. Huan Cao
UC Merced
(serotonin >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Lyndon F. Charles
(jahprofile >at< hotmail.com)
Prof. Prof. Sarawut Cheunkar
King Mongkut University of Technology
(sarawut.che >at< kmutt.ac.th)
Dr. Michael Cygan
(mcygan >at< erols.com)
Dr. Arrelaine Dameron
Pneumaticoat
(arrelaine >at< gmail.com)
Daniel Dewey
Prof. Zachary Donhauser
Department of Chemistry
Vassar College
(zadonhauser >at< vassar.edu)
Dr. Terry D’Onofrio
Edgewood Research, Development, and Engineering Center
(terrence.donofrio >at< us.army.mil)
Prof. Leyla Esfandiari
(lesfandiari >at< ucla.edu)
University of Cincinnati
Chunru Fan
(cfan >at< chem.ucla.edu)
Dr. Jim Ferris
(jimsan >at< ComCAT.COM)
Dr. Dan Fuchs
(dan_fuchs_4 >at< hotmail.com)
Prof. Andrea Giordano
(ang143 >at< psu.edu)
Dominic Goronzy
(goronzy.dominic >at< gmail.com)
Tracy Graham
Waters Corp.
(tracybelle >at< comcast.net)
Andrew Guttentag
(ang143 >at< psu.edu)
Patrick Han
(ang143 >at< psu.edu)
Dr. Julia Heetderks
(juliaheetderks >at< msn.com)
Dr. Nate Hohman
Molecular Foundry,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
(hohmanjn >at< stanford.edu)
Dr. Justin Ingram
Dr. Jennifer Jackiw
(jjjackiw >at< yahoo.com)
Jennifer Johnson
(jenjohnson >at< erols.com)
Dr. Marilyn Kamna
Intel
(marilyn_kamna >at< ccm.sc.Intel.com)
Vasilis M. Kostakis
Dr. Kyle Krom
(Kyle.Krom >at< merial.com)
Dr. Ajeet Kumar
National Physical Laboratory (NPL),
New Delhi, India,
(go4ajeet >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Adam Kurland
(adam.kurland >at< gmail.com)
Dr. James Kushmerick
NIST
(james.kushmerick >at
Jeff Lawrence
NIST
(jlawrenc2 >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Penelope Lewis
American Chemical Society
(p_lewis >at< acs.org)
Dr. Brent Mantooth
Edgewood Research, Development, and Engineering Center
(bmantooth >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Greg McCarty
University of North Carolina
and North Carolina State University
(gmccarty >at< email.unc.edu)
Dr. Alexandra Mendoza
Cedars Sinai
(alexandra.mendoza05>at
Dr. Jason Monnell
University of Pittsburgh
(jmonnell >at< engr.pitt.edu)
Dr. Amanda Moore
Intel
(amanda.m.moore >at< Intel.com)
Prof. TJ Mullen
University of North Florida
(mullen.tj >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Sanjini Nanayakkara
NREL
(Sanjini.Nanayakkara >at< nrel.gov)
Dr. Balakrishna Pathem
Hitachi GST
(bala.pathem >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Hector Saavedra
Intel
(hmsaavedra >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz
Intel
(schwartz >at< physics.ucla.edu)
Dr. Andrew Serino
Lam Research
(andrew.serino >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Mitchell Shuster
Intel
(mitchell.shuster >at< gmail.com)
Miles Silverman
College of the Canyons
(miles.silverman >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Rachel Smith
Life Technologies
(rachel.smitty >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Dominik Stemer
(dstemer >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Charan Srinivasan
Apple
(charan.s >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Stephan J. Stranick
NIST
(stephan.stranick >at
Dr. John C. Thomas
Intel
(jct197 >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Amit Vaish
Amgen
(amitfrompsu2009 >at< gmail.com)
Garrett Wadsworth
Air Products
(garrettwadsworth >at< gmail.com)
Shenkai Wang
(shenkaiwang >at< ucla.edu)
Dr. Natcha Wattanatorn
(natcha >at< chem.ucla.edu)
Dr. Thomas Young
(thomasdylanyoung >at< live.com)
Rong Zhang
(christine_rzhang >at< hotmail.com)
Shan Zhang
(zhangshan_9303>at<163.com)
Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao
Beijing Institute of Technology
(chuanzhenzhao >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Yuxi Zhao
Apple
(seesea.zhao >at< gmail.com)
Lingbo Xing
Peking University
(1401110255 >at< pku.edu.cn)
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Michael J. Abrams
Victor Aiello
Rashed Alkhlaifat
(abukhlief >at< ucla.edu)
Matthew Allen
Imperial College London
(matthew.allen15 >at< imperial.ac.uk)
Prof. Beth Anderson
Furman University
(maryelizabeth.anderson>at< furman.edu)
Esteban Bautista
California State University Northridge
(ebautista.elac >at< gmail.com)
Jason Belling
(jasonbelling >at< gmail.com)
Ivan Baxter
Priya Bhatia
(pbhatia >at< rice.edu)
Chris Binns
Ithaca College
Aimee Bross
(Price) Ohio State University
(price.798 >at< osu.edu)
Lafone Brown
Kevin Bui
Erin Carter
Phil Cerami
Lyndon F. Charles
(jahprofile >at< hotmail.com)
Sandy Chen
(sandych3n >at< gmail.com)
George Chriss
Mercedes Cornelius
(mercedes_cornelius >at< yahoo.com)
Jacob Fauman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Xin Gao
(xin.gao.97 >at< outlook.com) Nanjing University
Dr. Matt Gethers
Caltech
(mattgethers >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Ashley Gibb
(ashleygibb >at< gmail.com)
Megan Gilbert
Molly P. Heyer
Cambridge University
(mph29 >at< hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Emily Hiers
(eah012 >at< latech.edu)
Jennifer Hinds
(jhinds >at< ncsu.edu)
Hannah Lee Hinton
(hhinton >at< ucla.edu)
Olivia Irving
(olivia.rae.irving >at< gmail.com)
Renée M. Itle
Matthew SungYun Ji
(matthewji12345 >at< ucla.edu)
Sumana Kaluvai
(sumanakaluvai >at< gmail.com)
Lee Katrincic
David Kes
California State University, Long Beach
(davidkes >at< live.com)
Read Langlois
Dr. Mya LeThai
(lethaitramy >at< gmail.com)
Xi Li
(lixi >at< smail.nju.edu.cn)
Xiaotong Li
Nankai University
(ulanda1994 >at< yahoo.com)
Xiaohan Liu
(hanwan127 >at< gmail.com)
Prof. J. Christopher Love
MIT
(clove >at< mit..edu)
Tarah Lubinski
(tarah_lubs >at< hotmail.com)
Jason Lurie
(lurie >at< fas.harvard.edu)
Michael Mellody
(mmellody >at< ucla.edu)
Michelle Martinez-Rivera
(michelle.martinez.pr >at< gmail.com)
Patrick McClanahan
(pdmcclanahan >at< gmail.com)
Tanvir Mahmud
Brandon Matthews
(brandon.matthews.92 >at< gmail.com)
Kelly McElhinny
(kmm726 >at< lulu.acns.nwu.edu)
Dr. John McManigle
Abner J. Mintz
(Abner.Mintz >at< montgomerycollege.edu)
Liz Morin
(eim106 >at< psu.edu)
Dr. Elizabeth Muth
Ryan Nevin
Roya Nezarati
(rmnezara >at< ncsu.edu)
Michael G. Pirrello
Clarissa Pham
(clarissaapham >at< gmail.com)
Chris Pochas
Marian Popescu
Sue Prueksaritanond
Yifeng Qi
University of Science and Technology of China now MIT
(qiyf >at< mit.edu)
Rodrigo Rios
(riosno_40 >at< hotmail.com)
Dr. Nancy Santagata Ohio State University
Mark Schlegel
(stmks03 >at< moravian.edu)
Nicole Shedlock
(sxp207 >at< psu.edu)
Jared Swart
River Sween
(riverswn1 >at< gmail.com)
Dr. Chris Thompson
(cmthompson >at< northwestern.edu)
Leticia Torres
University of San Francisco
Marta Ventura
(mxv176 >at< psu.edu)
Angelo Vergnetti
Santa Monica College
(vergnetti.angelo >at< gmail.com)
Garrett Wadsworth
(garrettwadsworth >at< gmail.com)
Roger Wang
Lam Research
Dr. Lane Weaver
(laneW >at< aol.com)
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(alexwg >at< physics.harvard.edu)
Jeremy L. Weeden
Juniata College
Fujun Wu
(fxw126 >at< psu.edu)
Matthew Ye
Matthew Ye (matthewye >at< ucla.edu)
Sichen Ludwig Zhao
(luxwig >at< ucla.edu)
Hua Zheng
(belljayzh >at< gmail.com)
Former Visiting Scientists
Tae Kyung Ahn
Hanyang University
Department of Chemistry
Prof. Beth Anderson
Furman University
(maryelizabeth.anderson>at< furman.edu)
Dr. Boaz Alperson
Department of Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science
(cpboaz >at< weizmann.weizmann.ac.il)
Prof. Tomas Base
The Czech Academy of Sciences
(tbase >at< iic.cas.cz)
Prof. Heidi Bednar
College of the Canyons
(heidirenate >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Chris Barrett
McGill University
Fulbright Canada Chair
(chris.barrett >at< mcgill.ca)
Dr. Chris Carlisle
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
(cic1001 >at< cus.cam.ac.uk)
Dr. Yanyan Chen
(yychen2006 >at< sinano.ac.cn)
Prof. Fangyi Cheng
Nankai University
(fycheng >at< nankai.edu.cn>)
Dr. Marguerite Ciolkosz
State College Area High School
Prof. Dr. Jochen Feldmann
(feldmann >at< lmu.de)
Prof. Luis C. Fernandez-Torres
(lcfernandez >at< cayey.upr.edu)
Prof. Dr. Johan Hofkens
KU Leuven
(johan.hofkens >at< chem.kuleuven.be)
Prof. Atsushi Ikai
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama
Dr. Takao Ishida
(t-ishida >at< aist.go.jp)
Prof. Shana Kelley
University of Toronto
Special Fulbright Canada Chair
(shana.kelley >at< utoronto.ca)
Prof. Kevin Kelly
Rice University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(kkelly >at< rice.edu)
Sander S. Kommeren
Sander S. Kommeren
(a.s.kommeren >at< student.utwente.nl)
Sang Min Kim
Hanyang UniversitySang Min Kim
Department of Chemistry
Prof. Haiwon Lee
Hanyang University
Department of Chemistry
(haiwon >at< hanyang.ac.kr)
Prof. L. Andrew Lyon
Chapman University
(lyon>at
Kazunori Ohashi
Nagoya University
Department of Chemistry
(kazunori >at< nano.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Dr. Hans Peter Rust
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Prof. Federico Rosei
INRS EMT Canada Fulbright Chair (rosei >at< emt.inrs.ca)
Prof. Hiroshi Sakaguchi
Research Institute of Electronics Shizuoka University (sakaguchi >at< rie.shizuoka.ac.jp)
Prof. Ted Sargent
University of Toronto Fulbright Canada Chair (ted.sargent >at< utoronto.ca)
Dr. Tomo Takami
(hgg03601 >at< nifty.com) VisionArts SpinLab and Dongkuk University now Hiroshima University
Dr. Gary Taylor
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokoham
Prof. Jyh-Ming Wu
National Tsing Hua University
(wujm>at
Dr. Roger van Zee
NIST
Wouter J. C. Vijselaar
(w.j.c.vijselaar-1 >at< student.utwente.nl)
Dr. Gary Taylor
Department of Chemistry
Ithaca College
(vogel >at< ithaca.edu)
Prof. Marcus Weck
Department of Chemistry
New York University
(marcus.weck >at< nyu.edu)
Prof. Jiansheng Xu
Institute of Electrical Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences
(jsxu >at< mail.iee.ac.cn)
Prof. Xiaobin Xu
Tongji University
(xxu.uta >at< gmail.com)
Prof. Yingwei Yang
Jilin University
(ywyang >at< jlu.edu.)
Ken-Tye Yong
NTU
(ktyong>at
Yasuyuki Yokota
Osaka University
(yyokota >at< chem.es.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Prof. Francisco Zaera
University of California, Riverside
(zaera >at< ucr.edu)
Prof. Francisco Zaera
Department of Physics
Penn State Altoona
(dtz1 >at< psu.edu)