Principal Investigator

Nicholas A. Graham

Associate Professor
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

B.S. Washington University in Saint Louis
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA


Current Lab Members

Ali Basirattalab

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Ermioni Charalampopoulou
B.S. and M.S. Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

Alejandra Felix
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California

Marisa Hardy
B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.A. Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder

Judith Landau
B.S. Applied Mathematics, Cal State LA

Yukiko Higa
B.S. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Peyman Nouri
B.S. Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology

Deming Yin
B.S. Applied Chemistry, Central South University (China)
M.S. Materials Engineering – Machine learning, University of Southern California


PhD Lab Alumni

Alireza Delfarah
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2020)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University, Michael Snyder lab
Current position: Calico Life Sciences

Belinda Garana
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2023)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Current position: Sage Bionetworks

Nicolas Hartel
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2021)
Subsequent position: Thermo Fisher Scientific

James Joly
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2020)
Subsequent position: Nautilus Biotechnology

Melanie MacMullan (co-advised with Pin Wang)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2022)
Subsequent position: ImmunityBio
Current position: BigHat Biosciences

DongQing Zheng
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2021)
Subsequent position: Sartorius Biotechnology
Current position: AdvanBio


Undergraduate Lab Alumni

Kylie Burdsall (co-advised with Ray Stevens)
Subsequent position: Fulbright scholar at Karolinksa Institutet, MD/PhD student at Stanford University

Brandon Chew
B.S., Chemical Engineering (2020)
Subsequent position: PhD student at University of California, San Francisco

Nina Desai
B.S. Chemical Engineering,
Subsequent position: Intel

Ahra Kim
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Aditya Gopalan
B.S., Chemical Engineering (2020)

Matthew Jeon
B.S. Chemical Engineering (2022)
Subsequent position: Research tech at UCSF
Current position: MD/PhD student at University of Minnesota

Christopher Liu
B.S., Biomedical Engineering (2022)
Subsequent position: Research tech at Stanford
Current position: MD student at UC Irvine

Sydney Parrish
B.S., Chemical Engineering
Subsequent position: PhD student Arizona State University

Philip Phung
B.S., Chemical Engineering (2020)

Jonathan Sussman
B.S. Biomedical Engineering (2019)
Subsequent position: MD/PhD student at University of Pennsylvania

Sijie Wang
Subsequent position: PhD student Purdue University

Jesse Yang
Subsequent position: MS student University of California, Berkeley

Jessica Zhou
Subsequent position: PhD student University of California, San Diego


High School Alumni

Alejandra F.
Subsequent position: USC undergraduate

Marcus G.
Subsequent position: USC undergraduate

Marisela G.
Subsequent position: UCLA undergraduate

Justin H.

Ethan E.
Subsequent position: UCSD undergraduate

Diego M.
Subsequent position: Yale undergraduate

Mahesh A.

Jennifer M.
Subsequent position: UC Berkeley undergraduate

Carissa J.

Belen R.

Orlando C.

Sophia H.

Elias H.

Lauren M.