Zakaria Y. Al Balushi (Zak)

375 Hearst Memorial Mining BuildingBerkeley, CA 94720-1760
Email: albalushi@berkeley.eduPhone: (510) 664-5211

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Co-Director of the Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research (BETR) Center.

January 2019 - Present

o ACADEMIC PREPARATION:

Resnick Prize Postdoc Fellow in Applied Physics and Materials Science at California Institute of Technology with Prof. Harry A. Atwater, 2017-2018.

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, 2012-2017.

B.S./M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, 2007-2012.

[PI Honors and Awards are Listed Here]

Healin Im

Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D., Sungkyunkwan University
ihl0102@berkeley.edu

Bum Jun Kim

Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D., Sungkyunkwan University
kbj454@berkeley.edu

Jiayun Liang

Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
jiayun_liang@berkeley.edu

Mark Buckingham,

Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D., King’s College London
Starting 2025

Derick Tseng

PhD Graduate Student
B.S., University of California, Berkeley
derickwtseng@berkeley.edu

Joshua Herrera

PhD Graduate Student
B.S., New Mexico State University
joshua_herrera@berkeley.edu

Zhongzheng Mao

PhD Graduate Student
B.S., Southern University of Science and Technology
williammao@berkeley.edu

Rachel Cooper

PhD Graduate Student
B.S., University of Michigan
rachel_cooper@berkeley.edu

Saad Asad

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2027
saadasad@berkeley.edu

Aidan Conor McNabb

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2025
aidan.mcnabb@berkeley.edu

Bryant Le Nguyen

Undergraduate Student
Chemistry, Class of 2025
bn69008@berkeley.edu

Jasmine LEE

Undergraduate StudentNavy ROTC
Applied Math, Class of 2027
jazz1125_berk@berkeley.edu

GROUP ALUMNI

Jiayun Liang

PhD Graduate Student
Ph.D., MSE UC Berkeley
jiayun_liang@berkeley.edu

Ayush Gupta

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
Now Grad student at MIT

Ellis Spickermann

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2022
Now Grad student at Caltech

Sara Susanto

MS Graduate Student
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2022
Now at Applied Materials

Xiaotian Zhang

Postdoc Scholar
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Now Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Elena Unterleutner

MS Exchange Student
Technical University Graz, Austria
Now PhD Student

Jacob Ahmed

TTE Intern
College of Alameda
Now Undergrad at MSE UC Berkeley

Walker Browning

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
Now at Amazon

Sela Murphy

TTE Intern
Pasadena City College
Now Undergrad at MSE UC Berkeley

Lina Gannon

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2021

Ethan Klein

Undergraduate Student
Engineering Physics, Class of 2021
Now Grad student at Caltech

Jennifer Toy

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2024
Now PhD at Stanford

Erik Johnson

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
erikmj@berkeley.edu

Yuxin Luo

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
yuxin_luo@berkeley.edu

Bowei Tang

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
bowei_tang@berkeley.edu

Andika Nugroho

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
andika_nugroho@berkeley.edu

Vibeke Rogde

MS Exchange Student
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
vibekerogd@berkeley.edu

Fernando Campos

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
fernando_diazcampos@berkeley.edu

Kashyap Ganesan

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
kashyap_ganesan@berkeley.edu

Haowen Hu

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
haowen01@berkeley.edu

Neil Wang

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
wangyinzhen@berkeley.edu

Daniel Yao

Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2024
daniel.yao@berkeley.edu

Iris Yang

MEng. Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Class of 2023
huiling_yang@berkeley.edu

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