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
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.
B.S. University of Minnesota (2017)
M.S. Johns Hopkins University (2019)
Ph.D. University of Delaware (2025)
Project: Controlled assembly of protein mixtures into ordered nanoscale and macroscopic structures
Email: weiranxie[at]berkeley[dot]edu
B.S. Tsinghua University (2019)
Ph.D. Stanford University (2025)
Project: Engineering Random Heteropolymers as Cell Cryoprotectant
Email: zk570700[at]berkeley[dot]edu
B.S. Yale University (2017)
Ph.D. Harvard University (2023)
Project: Heteropolymers as aqueous catalysts
Email: daniel[dot]loh[at]berkeley[dot]edu
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
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
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
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
B.S. Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2022)
Project: Supramolecule nanocomposite self-assembly
Email: yeop_kim[at]berkeley[dot]edu
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
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
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)
Project: Self-assembly of polymeric nanocomposites
Email: kyt[at]berkeley[dot]edu
B.A. Biochemistry, Colorado College (2024)
Project: Thermal stabilization of proteins for self degrading, enzyme-embedded plastics
Email: nkesti[at]berkeley[dot]edu
B.S. Polymer Materials Engineering, Western Washington University (2025)
Project: Nanocomposite self-assembly and characterization
Email: anders_johnson[at]berkeley[dot]edu