Key to group photograph:

From left to right

Tony Ferrese
Professor John Newman
Lisa Onishi
Nisita Wanakule
Nate Craig
Haluna (Penny) Gunterman
Paul Albertus
Maureen Tang
Adam Weber (group alumni)
Ryan Balliet
Carl Schoellhammer

Group Contact Information: You can reach the Newman lab by phone at (510) 643-1972

Group Member Biographies (with most senior members listed first)

Lisa Onishi (2003), onishil (at) berkeley.edu

Lisa is working on fuel cell membrane properties at low and sub-zero temperatures. She graduated from University of Washington in 2000, and then worked at UTC Fuel Cells for three years before coming to Berkeley.

Paul Albertus (2004), albertus (at) berkeley.edu

Paul is working on modeling side reactions and aging mechanisms in NiMH and Li-ion batteries using the Dualfoil.f model developed in the Newman group. He has also worked on modeling hybrid-electric vehicles. Paul graduated from the University of Michigan in 2003.

Penny Gunterman (2005), haluna (at) berkeley.edu

Penny joined UC Berkeley after graduating from Caltech in 2005 with degrees in Chemical Engineering and Business. She is now working on 2-d modeling of water management in fuel cells and continues to explore her interests in international business.

Nisita Wanakule (2005), nisita (at) berkeley.edu

Nisita graduated from the University of Florida in 2005. Currently, she is focusing on electrochemical methods to control the morphology of block copolymers. By incorporating an electroactive compound onto the backbone of a polymer, a voltage can be applied to the polymer to change its properties. Nisita is coadvised by Professor Nitash Balsara.

Ryan Balliet (2006), ryan.balliet (at) gmail.com

Ryan graduated from Stanford University in 1999 and subsequently worked on the development of PEM fuel cell systems at UTC Power.  He joined the group in the Fall of 2006 and plans to pursue a project in fuel cell modeling.

Maureen Tang (2007), mtang (at) berkeley.edu

Maureen graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2007 before coming to UC Berkeley. She is working on modeling and experiments on lithium-ion batteries.

Nate Craig (2007), nathancraig (at) berkeley.edu

Nate completed a degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 2007. He is planning to do modeling and/or experimental work on renewable energy.

Recent Alumni (and present location)

Jake Christensen
Adam Weber
Robert Darling 
Marc Doyle
Javit Drake
Darryl Dunn
Christian Fellner
Tom Fuller
Craig Gates
Arne Geiger
Hooman Hafezi
Jeremy Meyers
Chuck Monroe

(Tesla Motors)
(Outotec)
(Bosch RTC)
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
(UTC Fuel Cells)
(du Pont Central Research and Development Experimental Station)
(Duracell)
(Macromedia)
(Environmental Protection Agency)
(Georgia Tech )
(Hewlett Packard)
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
(Proteus Biomed)
(UT Austin)
(University of Michigan)
(MBA Polymers)
(Sastech R&D)
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
(Applied Materials)
(Tiax)
(Mobius Technologies)
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
(Brigham Young University)
(Carollo)
(VLSI Technology, Inc.)