Our Fellows - Kavli Discovery Fellows - Spring 2025
Kavli Discovery Fellows
Carla Bassil
Multiplexed Volatile Organic Compound Gas Sensors using Nanoscale Materials
Collin Finnan
Augmentations and Applications of NEM Switches
Haoyue Jiang
Haoyue Jiang is developing an experimental apparatus for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy using high-order harmonic probe pulses.
Jamie Geng
Toward bi-directional photodiodes for in-sensor computation
Kaiyu Wang
Kaiyu Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Omar Yaghi's lab, specializing in the synthesis of mechanically interlocking structures. His research interests also include leveraging artificial intelligence and lab automation to accelerate materials discovery.
Kohtaro Yamakawa
Koh Yamakawa is a Ph.D. candidate in Professor James Analytis's Lab in the physics department at UC Berkeley. He is interested in the materials design and discovery of novel materials with the aim toward understanding and manipulating macroscopic quantum effects such as superconductivity and band topology.
Maria Fonseca Guzman
Enhancing Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Fuels: Synthesis, characterization, and testing of copper-gallium nanocatalysts
Oscar Gonzalez
Oscar Gonzalez is a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Bediako's lab in the chemistry department at UC Berkeley. Oscar's research involves probing local and global magnetic order in intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides with an eye towards implementation in spintronic devices.
Ziyi Wang
Ziyi Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley specializing in the synthesis and STM characterization of novel graphene nanoribbons and molecule-based quantum materials. His research focuses on engineering low-dimensional nanostructures with tunable electronic, magnetic, and quantum properties, and exploring their behavior using advanced local probe techniques.
