Principle Investigator (PI)
Yue Jessica Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (affiliated) Department of Bioengineering (affiliated)
B.S. Chemistry, UCLA (2008)
Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, UCLA (2014)
Postdoc: Chemical Engineering, Stanford (2014-2017)
Email: yuewang@ucmerced.edu
Office: SE2, Rm 283
Select Honors and Awards:
Moore Inventor Fellowship, Finalist (2018)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, Finalist (2016)
Norma Stoddart Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research and Exemplary Citizenship (2015)
Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, American Chemical Society (2013)
Science as Art Competition, First Place, Materials Research Society (2013)
NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship (2010-2013)
TEAM members
Dr. Di Wu
Postdoctoral scholar
Email: dwu63@ucmerced.edu
Research interest: Polymer physics, rheology, synchrotron & neutron scattering
Ph.D. Material Science & Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology
Ian Hill
PhD student, Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering (MBSE)
Email: ihill2@ucmerced.edu
Research interest: 3D printing of conjugated polymers
B.S. Biological Sciences, Minor in Chemistry
California State University, Stanislaus
Justin Couvrette
PhD student, Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering (MBSE)
Email: jcouvrette@ucmerced.edu
Research interest: Bio-design, slime molds
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Bohao Xu
PhD student, Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering (MBSE)
M.S. Packaging Materials and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University
Email: bxu26@ucmerced.edu
Research interest: Mechanically transformative materials, soft robotics
Michael Yang
MS student, Bioengineering
Email: myang100@ucmerced.edu
B.S. Bioengineering
Research focus: Bio-design using slime mold
University of California, Merced
Jacob Frye
MS student, Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering (MBSE)
Email: jfrye@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: SLA printing, mechanical metamaterials
B.S. Material Science and Engineering University of California, Merced
Celeste Castillo
Research Scientist
Email: mcastillo34@ucmerced.edu
Research Focus: Machine Building, 3D printing
Industry experience: 3M
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis
John Misiaszek
B.S. student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: jmisiaszek@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: machine building & coding, simulation, 3D printing, sol-gel synthesis
NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF)
GEM Fellowship
ASMI-SAMPE Award
University of Wisconsin, Madison Summer REU Fellowship
UC Merced SURF Tier 2 REU Fellowship
UC Merced Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) Fellowship
Miguel Flores Martinez
B.S. student, Chemistry
Email: mfloresmartinez@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: SLA resin chemistry
UC LEADS Scholar
Adrian Giglio
B.S. student, Mechanical Engineering
Email: agiglio@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: 3D printing, CAD design
Andrew Luna
B.S. student, Bioengineering
Email: aluna47@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: Machine building
Jessica Lopez Lara
B.S. student, Chemistry
Email: jlopezlara@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: Conducting polymer synthesis and processing
UC LEADS Scholar
Luis Cardenas
B.S. student, Mechanical Engineering
Email: lcardenas3@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: Machine building for conductive polymer synthesis
Robert Coop
B.S. student, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: rcoop@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: Machine building for DLP additive manufacturing
Emily Tran
B.S. student, Bioengineering
Email: etran45@ucmerced.edu
Research focus: 3D-modeling, SLA 3D printing