Meet Our Team

Sailor, Michael

Director, UC San Diego MRSEC
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
UC San Diego

Tao, Andrea

Co-Director, UC San Diego MRSEC
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering
Associate Dean for Students, Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego

Averitt, Richard

IRG1 Co-Lead
Professor, Physics,
UC San Diego

Liu, Zhaowei

IRG1 Co-Lead
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering,
UC San Diego

Allen, Monica

IRG2 Co-Lead
Assistant Professor, Physics,
UC San Diego

Figueroa, Joshua

IRG2 Co-Lead
Professor, Chemistry,
UC San Diego

Brydges, Stacey

Education & Outreach Director
Teaching Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Vice Chair of EDIC, UC San Diego

Pascal, Tod

Data Management Lead
Associate Professor, Chemical & Nano Engineering
UC San Diego

Administration

Bond, Janka

Assistant Director,
UC San Diego MRSEC

MRSEC orientation, major initiatives, annual reports, strategic planning, interface with external partners

Lkhagvasuren, Tsol

Executive Assistant,
UC San Diego MRSEC

Meetings, seminars, events, trainee financial support, communications

Stecher, Karen

Fund Manager,
UC San Diego MRSEC

Proposal submission, approval of expenditures and major budget items

Cooper, Avah

Fiscal Assistant,
UC San Diego MRSEC

Proposal and budget preparation, financial reporting

Education & Outreach

Tamura, Ashley

Education & Outreach
Coordinator, UC San Diego MRSEC

Interface with trainees, E&O events and planning, RIMSE summer school

Shared Facilities

Trainee Leadership (TLAC)

DeLuna, Ricardo

Facilities Manager,
UC San Diego MRSEC

Training, maintenance, operations of facilities and long-range facilities planning

Kingsford, Rand

Facilities Engineer,
UC San Diego

Training, maintenance, operations of facilities and application-specific scientific programming