Postdoctoral Researchers
Farahnaz Maleki
fmaleki at ucdavis.edu
Dr. Farahnaz Maleki received her PhD in inorganic and computational chemistry at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran (2018). She worked as a post-doc at Milano Bicocca University in Italy (2019-2022). Her research activity mainly concerns first-principles simulations on weak interactions in small molecules, nature of bonds, the electronic structure and catalytic properties of oxide surfaces, as well as metal-oxide interfaces. Her current research focus is on phonon mode analysis of small molecule organic semiconductors.
Graduate Researchers
Ethan Field
efield at ucdavis.edu
Ethan is a 5th year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering. He is also a stand up guy.
Joaquin Mogollon Santiana
jmogollonsantiana at ucdavis.edu
Joaquin is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering.
Toulik Maitra
tkmaitra at ucdavis.edu
Toulik is a third year PhD candidate working on quantifying disorder in organic semiconductors. In his spare time, he enjoys reading books and watching anime. In addition, he is a Manchester United fan and a soccer enthusiast.
Ray Chiang
cwchiang at ucdavis.edu
Ray is a PhD student in Materials Science. He is building force field for non-crystalline materials.
Divyansh Dwivedi
dddwivedi@ucdavis.edu
Divyansh is a second-year MS student in Chemical Engineering. He enjoys photography, watching anime, and gaming in his free time.
Undergraduate Researchers
Megan Hong
mlhong@ucdavis.edu
Megan is a 4th year Materials Science and Engineering student working with Joaquin to develop organic devices. In her free time she enjoys dancing and baking
Emily Vong
emvong@ucdavis.edu
Emily is an undergraduate majoring in Chemical Engineering. She likes listening to music, building mini models, and watching Formula 1 in her free time.
Rachel Long
rllong@ucdavis.edu
Rachel is majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at UC Davis. She is currently working on the Neutron Project with Toulik Maitra. In her free time, she loves to fly planes, hike, travel, and train brazilian jiu jitsu.
