Postdoctoral Scholar (2023)
Dr. Daniel Loh
B.S. Yale University (2017)
Ph.D. Harvard University (2023)
Project: Heteropolymers as aqueous catalysts
Email: daniel[dot]loh[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Group Members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ting Xu
Professor of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Department of Chemistry
Dr. Xu teaches Polymer Surfaces And Interfaces (MATSCI 251) for graduate students during the Fall semester, and Polymeric Materials (MATSCI 151) for upper-division undergraduate students during the Spring semester.
Office: 381 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Phone: 510-642-1632
Email: tingxu[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Meet Our Team
All postdoctoral and student researchers are based in the 3rd Floor Student Bay of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building on UC Berkeley Campus, and can be contacted via personal email or through the lab phone number: 510-643-6804.
Postdoctoral Scholar (2021)
Dr. Hao Yu
B.S. Chemistry, Jilin University (2016)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2021)
Project: Design of heteropolymers for catalytic activity and plastic recycling
Email: haoy3[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2021)
Haotian Chen
B.S. Agriculture, Jilin University (2018)
M.S. Neurobiology, Fudan University (2021)
Project: Cellular Properties of Random Heteropolymers as a Protein Mimic
Email: haotian_chen[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2022)
Alexandra Grigoropoulos
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2022)
Project: Random heteropolymer design for modulation of protein folding and stability
Email: alexandrag2022[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2022)
Baichuan (Patrick) Na
B.S. Chemistry, The Ohio State University (2022)
Project: Interaction between Random Heteropolymers and metal ions: Perspective from selective lanthanides separation
Email: baichuanna[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2022)
Seungyeop Kim
B.S. Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2022)
Project: Supramolecule nanocomposite self-assembly
Email: yeop_kim[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2023)
Hao Wei
B.S. Chemistry, University of California San Diego (2023)
Project: Polymer Nanocomposites for plastic waste upcycling and functionalization
Email: hao_wei[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2023)
Sherrie Qian
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023)
Project: Synthesis and characterization of polymer grafted nanoparticles
Email: sxqian[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2024)
Kiera Yeechen Tai
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)
Project: Self-assembly of polymeric nanocomposites
Email: kyt[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2025)
Nate Kesti
B.A. Biochemistry, Colorado College (2024)
Project: Thermal stabilization of proteins for self degrading, enzyme-embedded plastics
Email: nkesti[at]berkeley[dot]edu
Graduate Student (2025)
Anders Arthur Johnson
B.S. Polymer Materials Engineering, Western Washington University (2025)
Project: Nanocomposite self-assembly and characterization
Email: anders_johnson[at]berkeley[dot]edu