EISLER LAB

Welcome, all! The Eisler Lab is in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

We believe that transformative technologies and fundamental scientific advances will be possible at the intersection of chemical approaches to materials synthesis  and nanophotonics. 

News and Events

September 2025 - Lindsey graduates with her PhD in Chemical Engineering - Congratulations on all your hard work!

September 2025 - Gabby graduates with her M.S. in Chemical Engineering - Congratulations on all your hard work!

Summer 2025 - Ade completes SURP program - Congratulations on completing the SURP program in Summer 2025! Great work!

June 2025 - Back Focal Plane imaging work published in ACS Photonics - Our new manuscript, Tunable Angular Light Emission of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Thin Films via Solution-Processed Substrate Treatment, was published in ACS Nanoscience Au. It was an honor to be featured in this suite of amazing work!

May 2025 - Mounika Presents work at SID - Mounika presented her work at the Society of Information Display - Bay Area chapter

May 2025 - Back Focal Plane imaging work published in ACS Photonics - Our new manuscript, Quantifying the Accuracy and Precision of the Transition Dipole Moment Alignment from Realistic Angular Emission Data, was published in ACS Photonics as part of the “Rising Stars in Photonics” special issue. It was an honor to be featured in this suite of amazing work!

May 2025 - 4th Year Symposium - Mounika Dudala, Danny Katz, and Brendan Russ presented their work at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering's 4th Year Symposium, highlighting their progress over the last 4 years.

Oct 2024 - AIChE 2024 - Danny Katz, Mounika Dudala, Lindsey Parsons, Brendan Russ, and Carissa Eisler presented their work at the AIChE annual conference!

September 2024 - Lauren wins Best Presentation at SURP 2024 - Lauren won Best Presentation and was runner up for Best Poster at SURP 2024, a testament to her incredible work over the summer!

June 2024 - Brendan Russ Advanced to Candidacy - Congratulations on successfully reaching another significant milestone in the PhD process! 

April 2024 - Alexandra Grishchenko Passes the PWE Exam - Her hard studying payed off, congratulations to Alexandra for passing the first hurdle in their PhD studies!

Spring 2024 - Solar Academy - Danny Katz, Gabriela Nerhood, and Carissa Eisler led the CEED & WE@UCLA Solar Energy Academy

February 2024 - Superfluorescence Review article published in Nanophotonics - Our new manuscript, The future of quantum technologies: superfluorescence from solution-processed, tunable materials, was published in Nanophotonics. It was an honor to be featured in this suite of amazing work!

Sep 2023 - Mounika Dudala Advanced to Candidacy - Congratulations on successfully reaching another significant milestone in the PhD process! 

Aug 2023 - Danny Katz Advance to Candidacy - Congratulations on successfully reaching another significant milestone in the PhD process! 

Aug 2023 - SPIE Conference - Lindsey and Carissa presented recent work at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego, CA!

June 2023 - Senior Sendoff 2023 - Congratulations to Rishab Gupta, Adison Guo, Nadia Owen, Alyssa Vu, & Sunny Tran for graduating! You will all be missed!

Dec 2022 - Ella Levine Accepted into the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars Program - As part of the Clare Boothe Luce Scholar, Ella will be optimizing luminescent solar concentrator designs and developing solar cell computational models. Way to go, Ella!

December 2022 - Danny defends Masters Thesis and earns his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering! 

Nov 2022 - AIChE 2022 - Lindsey and Carissa presented their recent work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ!

Summer 2022 - Danny leads the SURP program as a facilitator! 

Summer 2022 - Leonna Gaither Admitted to the SURP Program - Leonna Gaither joins the Eisler lab through the SEAS Summer Undergraduate Research Program and is supported by Women in Engineering @ UCLA. Welcome, Leonna!

July 2022 - Eisler Lab Work Featured in Frontiers in Photonics Invited Research Topic - Our new manuscript, Photonic Luminescent Solar Concentrator Design for High Efficiency, Low Cost Multijunction Photovoltaics, was published in Frontiers in Photonics for their Invited Research Topic Advanced Opto-Electrical Modeling of Photovoltaic Materials and Devices. It was an honor to be featured in this suite of amazing work!

Senior Sendoff 2022 - ConGRADulations to our graduating undergraduate researchers, Roma Modi, June Chang, Spencer Goldrich, Karina Akers, and Morgan Silverman. We are so proud of you!

Mounika Dudala, Danny Katz, and Brendan Russ Pass the PWE Exam - Their hard studying payed off, congratulations to Mounika,  Danny, and Brendan for passing the first hurdle in their PhD studies!

Lindsey Parsons Awarded NSF GRFP and NDSEG - Lindsey was chosen as a recipient of the 2022 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and also was chosen as a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program. Well done, Lindsey!

Kaylie Bair Sponsored by UCLA IoES - Kaylie was selected to be sponsored by UCLA IoES for a research project focusing on Energy Efficient Optical Displays for Personal Electronics and Energy-Efficiency in Photovoltaic Devices. Way to go, Kaylie!

Kaylie Bair Awarded Future of Physics Award - Kaylie was awarded a Future of Physics Award from the Princeton Department of Physics for Promise in Plasma Physics and Quantum Technology. Great job, Kaylie!

Nadia Owen Sponsored by Siemens EDA - Nadia was selected to be sponsored by Siemens EDA to work on a research project related to semiconductors as part of the Semiconductor Research Corporation Undergraduate Research Program. Congrats, Nadia!

Alyssa Vu to Begin JPL/NASA Internship - Alyssa will be starting a part-time internship in thermal engineering during the school year through JPL and NASA. You've got star quality, Alyssa!!

Ella Levine Presents Work at SURP - Ella participated in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program as a Samueli Research Scholar (SRS). She presented and published her work on "Annual Power Output for Multi-Junction Solar Cells in Los Angeles County" for the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week. We're so proud of you, Ella!

Lindsey Parsons Selected as a BREES Teacher - Lindsey was selected to teach chemical engineering in the Summer Bridge Review for Enhancing Engineering Students (BREES) program. Way to go, Lindsey!

Recruitment

We are actively recruiting exceptional and motivated group members who want to gain expertise in the synthesis and optical characterization of inorganic nanocrystals and in designing transformative optoelectronic devices. 

Graduate students: Please apply to the MS or PhD program at UCLA, and contact Carissa in November / December. All graduate students must be applying to or currently enrolled in the UCLA MS or PhD program in order to be considered. 

Undergraduate students: Please fill out the Undergraduate Research Interest form to let us know a little bit more about you and what kind of work you'd like to do. We'll check these at the start of each quarter. 

Postdoctoral scholars: We are unfortunately not recruiting postdoctoral scholars at this time. Please check back soon!