Houk UCLA Group Members, 1986-Current (UCLA era) (as of August 25, 2017)

Name UCLA Position Current Position Location

Emel Adaligil Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Bogazici, Istanbul, Turkey Jean-Michel Adam Visiting Scholar Research Scientist Novartis, Basel, Switzerland Seth Ahlquist Und. Researcher Medical School UCLA Christopher Allen Und. Researcher Christophe Alleman Postdoc Researcher Syngenta, Monthey, Switzerland Christopher Anderson Postdoc Associate Professor Calvin College, MI Kaori Ando Visiting Scholar Professor Gifu University, Japan John Anthony Professor University of Kentucky Alan Armstrong Visiting Scholar Reader Imperial College, London, Great Britain Austin Asari Graduate Student Minnesota Amparo Asensio Visiting Scholar Instructor Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tom Aunins Und. Researcher Graduate Student Viktorya Aviyente Visiting Scholar Professor Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Maryam Azimi Graduate Student Teacher High School Sami Bahmanyar Ph.D. Research Scientist Celgene, La Jolla, CA Clark (Pengcheng) Bao CSST China Mike Bartberger Postdoc Research Scientist Amgen Julie Bartley Professor (Geology) Gustavus Adolphus College Rohit Batra Swiss NSF Postoc Katherine Bay In Residence GSR In Residence GSR UCLA Shahdad Behnam Und. Researcher Medical Doctor Shahrad Behnam Und. Researcher Medical Doctor Brett Beno Ph.D. Research Scientist Bristol-Myers Squibb Klaus Bescherer Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Queen's University, Canada Kersey Black Visiting Scholar Professor Keck Joint Science Guillaume Bollot Postdoc France Martin Breugst Postdoc Privatdozent Univ. Cologne, Germany Jeffrey Broeker Postdoc Research Scientist Amoco Felix Calderon Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Org. Chem. Inst., Spain Luis Campos Ph.D. Professor Columbia University Carina Cannizzaro Ph.D. Research Scientist Gilead / now retired Yang Cao Ph.D. Tech. Transfer Mgr. Peking Univ., Shenzhen Grad. School Jennifer Carter M.S. Teacher High School Saron Catak Visiting Scholar Research Scientist Syngenta Nicola Cattozzi Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Ferrara, Italy Nihan Celebi Olcum Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor Yediteppe University Hasan Celik Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Bogazici, Turkey Pier Alexandre Champagne Postdoc Postdoc UCLA Irene Chang Und. Researcher Und. Researcher UCLA Ito Chao Visiting Scholar Professor Academia Sinica, Taiwan Asha Chaubey Postdoc Research Scientist Indian Institute of Chemistry Dezhan Chen Visiting Scholar Professor China Eric Chen Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Jenny Chen Ph.D. Professor Mount San Antonio Community College Jiangang Chen Ph.D. Professor Univ. of Singapore Maggie Chen Und. Researcher Und. Researcher UCLA Matthew Chen Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Shuming Chen Teacher-Scholar Teacher-Scholar UCLA Tiffany Chen Und. Researcher Und. Researcher UCLA Paul Cheong Ph.D. Assoc. Professor Oregon State University Collins Chijioke Und. Researcher Medical School Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN Vivian Chiu Und. Researcher Young Jae Choe Und. Researcher Jun-Ho Choi Postdoc Assistant Professor Korea Paola Cimino Postdoc Researcher Univ. of Salerno, Italy Fernando Clemente Visiting Scholar Researcher GAUSSIAN Arik Cohen Postdoc Israel Kevin Condroski NIH Postdoc Research Scientist Celgene Amy Keating Constable Postdoc Professor MIT Biology Fernando Cossio Visiting Scholar Professor Eskal Herriko University, San Sebastian, Spain James Coxon Visiting Scholar Professor New Zealand Pablo Davidov Ph.D. Consultant Florida Jason DeChancie Ph.D. Scientist Booz Allen Hamilton, Rockville, MD Nick DeMello Postdoc Computer Programmer Xplain Corp. Qiaolin Deng Postdoc Research Fellow Merck Arne Dieckmann Postdoc Scientist SimCorp, Germany Matthias Diedrich Postdoc Research Scientist Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany Xiaofei Dong Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Andrea Dorigo Ph.D. Lawyer Rhode Island Nate Druckerman Und. Researcher Graduate Student Xiaohui Du Ph.D. Postdoc UCSF Abing Duan VGR Postdoc National Univ. Singapore Travis Dudding Postdoc Professor Brock University, Canada Dilek Duran Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Bogazici, Turkey Andrew Dutton Ph.D. Postdoc Harvard Medical School Thomas Eaton Ph.D. Professor St. Thomas, Florida Nicola Edwards Ph.D. Assistant Professor Misericordia Univ. John Eksterowicz Ph.D. Research Scientist Amgen, San Francisco, CA Katie Elwell Und. Researcher Susan Ernst Ph.D. Sales Rep. Accelrys Daniel Ess Ph.D. Assistant Professor Brigham Young University Kirsten Eurenius Ph.D. Assistant Professor Texas Comm. College Jeffrey Evanseck Ph.D. Professor Duquesne, Pittsburgh Zili Fan Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Christine Fang Und. Researcher Graduate Student Scripps Jason Fell Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Celine Fouillet Visiting Scholar Lawrence Furan Und. Researcher Graduate Student Univ. of Michigan Nathan Gallup Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Bishwajit Ganguly Visiting Scholar Toronto Jiali Gao Visiting Scholar Professor Univ. of Minnesota Yeimy Garcia M.S. Marc Garcia Borras Postdoc Postdoc UCLA Jesus Garcia Lopez Postdoc Caltech (Grubbs) Robert Giacometti Visiting Scholar Professor Toronto Richard Giasson Visiting Scholar Professor Univ. of Montreal, Canada Paul Gibbons M.S. Scientist Genentech James Gleason Visiting Scholar Professor McGill University, Canada Dahlia Goldfeld Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Harvard Bernd Goldfuss Postdoc Professor Univ. of Cologne, Germany Chevy Goldstein Visiting Scholar deceased Javier Gonzalez Fulbright Fellow Associate Professor Univ. of Oviedo Ruth Gordillo Visiting Scholar Associate Professor Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Jessica Grandner Graduate Student Postdoc USC Matt Grayson Postdoc Fellow Univ. of Cambridge Aaron Green Ph.D. Self-Employed Nora Green Ph.D. Associate Professor Randolph Macon College Melinda Gugelchuk NIH Postdoc Assistant Professor Univ. of Waterloo Vildan Guner Postdoc Professor Univ. of Hacettepe, Turkey Hakan Gunaydin Ph.D. Research Scientist Merck Kersti Haatveit In Residence GSR In Residence GSR UCLA Fredrik Haeffner Postdoc Postdoc Boston College Jan Haller Lynen Postdoc Research Scientist Agfa, Germany Sandra Handschuh Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Erlangen, Germany Amy Hayden Ph.D. Lawyer Fenwick and West, LLP Cyndi (Qixin) He Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Roger Helgeson Assoc. Researcher Retired Bruce Hietbrink Ph.D. Assistant Professor Washington, DC Mareike Holland Postdoc Kazuya Honda VGR Xin Hong Ph.D. Professor Zheejiang Univ. Yunfeng (Eric) Hu Ph.D. Research Scientist Gilead Guanhua Huang Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Richard Huhn Visiting Scholar Graduate Student MIT Robert Iafe Graduate Student Instructor Pomona College Momoko Ishii Und. Researcher Yoshimitsu Itoh Visit. Grad. Stud. Graduate Student Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Arash Jabbari Visiting Scholar Iran Natalie James Graduate Student Peter Jarowski Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Sheffield Joe Jaye In Res. GSR Graduate Student UCLA Frank Jensen Ph.D. Associate Professor Univ. of Enschede, Denmark Gonzalo Jimenez Oses Postdoc Professor Univ. La Rioja Yu Jin Und. Researcher Graduate Student Northwestern Scott Johnson Ph.D. Research Scientist Merck Research Laboratories Gavin Jones Ph.D. Research Scientist IBM Walter Jones Visiting Scholar deceased Maziyar Kalani Und. Researcher Medical Doctor Yashar Kalani Und. Researcher Medical Doctor Adam Kallel Ph.D. Research Fellow II Vertex Pharms., San Diego Ozlem Karahan Postdoc Takashi Kasuga Postdoc Research Scientist Sony Corp., Japan Amy Keating Ph.D. Professor Biology, MIT Mahmood Khaledy Und. Researcher Graduate Student Kelli S. Khuong Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of San Diego Seonah Kim Postdoc Research Scientist NREL, CO Susanna Kim Und. Researcher Pharmacist Chicago Gert Kiss Postdoc Research Scientist Revolution Therapeutics Achim Kless Lynen Fellow Research Scientist Aachen Elizabeth Krenske Postdoc ARC Fellow Univ. of Queensland, Australia Wolfgang Kroutil Visiting Scholar Professor Graz, Austria Corrie Kuniyoshi Educational Specialist Americna Chemical Society Keith Kuwata Postdoc Associate Professor Macalester College Colin Lam Postdoc Research Scientist Merck Erwin Lam VGR Graduate Student ETH Yu Lan Postdoc Assistant Professor Chongqing University, China Holger Lange Lynen Fellow Research Scientist Andrew Leach Postdoc Reader (as of 2013) Liverpool John Moores Univ. Gina Lee In Residence GSR In Residence GSR UCLA Jeehiun Katherine Lee NIH Postdoc Professor Rutgers Michelle Lee Und. Researcher Medical Doctor Beverly Hills, CA Patrick Lee Ph.D. Research Scientist SGI, La Jolla, CA Claude Legault Postdoc Associate Professor Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada Andrew Leung Postdoc Brian Levandowski Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Wei Li Und. Researcher Und. Researcher UCLA Wenfei Li Und. Researcher Graduate Student UCLA Xin Li Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar UCLA Yanwei Li Visiting Scholar Professor Shandong Univ. Yi Li Ph.D./Postdoc Research Scientist Aventis, NJ Ying Li Postdoc Counselor Intl. School of Shanghai Yingzi Li VGR VGR UCLA Zhe Li Postdoc Postdoc Dalhousie Univ., Canada Yong Liang Postdoc Professor Nanjing Univ. Bernice Lin Und. Researcher Graduate Student Rutgers Janice Lin Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Yao-Chun Lin Graduate Student Japan H. J. Lindner Visiting Scholar Professor (ret.) Univ. of Darmstadt Fang (Acia) Liu Ph.D. Postdoc Nanjing Univ. Fengjiao Liu VGR VGR UCLA Jian Liu Ph.D. Research Scientist Merck Peng Liu Ph.D./Postdoc Assistant Professor Univ. of Pittsburgh Richard Loncharich Research Scientist Eli Lilly Jose Lopez Und. Researcher Steven Lopez Ph.D. Assistant Professor Northwestern Jennifer Luft Robbins Ph.D. Instructor Keck Joint Science Melissa Lucero Ph.D. Research Scientist Los Alamos Natl. Lab Michelle Ma Und. Researcher Joel Mackey Ph.D. Instructor Keck Joint Science Narcis Madern Postdoc Scientist Spain Zhongtian Mao CSST Undergrad Graduate Student Univ. Wezhing Blanton Martin Graduate Student Self-Employed Ricardo Matute Postdoc Postdoc Caltech Michael McAllister NRC Postdoc Research Scientist Pfizer, La Jolla, CA Patrick McCarren Ph.D. Research Scientist Broad Institute Meg McCarrick Ph.D. Research Scients (ret.) Celgene Christina McCulley Graduate Student Kieche Meleson Graduate Student Frederick Monnat Postdoc Scientist Syngenta, Switzerland Cameron Mura NSF REU Assistant Professor Univ. of Virginia Jim Na Ph.D. Research Scientist Pfizer, La Jolla, CA Kenske Nakamura Postdoc Research Scientist Inst. for Medicinal Molecular Design, Japan Maja Nendel Ph.D./Postdoc Vice President Frey & Lau, Hamburg, Germany Sharon Neufeldt Postdoc Professor Montana State Univ. KhanLinh Nguyen Graduate Student Postdoc Scripps Ken Nicholas Visiting Scholar Professor Univ. of Oklahoma Timo Niepel Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Aachen, Germany Satomi Niwayama Postdoc Professor MuIT, Hokkaido Elizabeth Noey Ph.D. Scientist University of Milwaukee Brian Northrop Ph.D. Assistant Professor Wesleyan University Joseph Norton Ph.D. Government Service Geoff Nosrati Ph.D. Consultant McKinsey Mikel Odriozola VGR Graduate Student San Sebastian Leif Olson Postdoc Research Scientist Univ. of Rochester Silvia Osuna Postdoc Assistant Professor Univ. of Girona Cem Ozturk Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Bogazici, Turkey Xiumei Pan Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar UCLA Jiyong Park Postdoc Postdoc KAIST, Korea Beatriz de Pascual-Teresa Visiting Scholar Dean, Faculty of Universidad San Pablo, Pharmacy Madrid, Spain Ashay Patel Ph.D. Postdoc UCSD Robert Paton Postdoc Professor Colorado State Univ. Jean-Pierre Pelicier Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Lyon, France Ryan Pemberton M.S. Student Postdoc Bay Area Jose Maria Perez Visiting Scholar Research Chemist Universidad Complutense-Madrid, Spain Manuel Perez Gonzalez Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Barcelona, Spain Blake Peterson Professor University of Maryland Anh Pham Graduate Student Hung Pham Ph.D. Instructor UCLA Susan Pieniazek Ph.D. Research Investigator Bristol-Myers Squibb in comp-aided drug design Buzz Piersol M.S. High School Teacher Arizona Dietmar Plattner Swiss NSF Postdoc Professor Freiburg, Germany Maren Podewitz Postdoc Fellow Univ. of Vienna, Austria Jennifer Radkiewicz Ph.D. Professor North Carolina Laura Raimondi Ph.D. Professor Univ. of Milan, Italy Raghunath Ramabhadram Postdoc Professor India Melissa Ramirez Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Francisco Raymo Postdoc Professor Univ. of Miami Amir Rodriguez Und. Researcher Gloria Rodriguez Ph.D. Teacher High School Jefferson Rose Ph.D. Postdoc Audrey Ross Und. Researcher Graduate Student Columbia University Luis Simon Rubio Visit. Grad. Stud. Postdoc Cambridge, England Victor Ruiz Und. Researcher Graduate Student Yale Avery Sader Graduate Student Postdoc UCLA Jacob Sanders Postdoc Postdoc UCLA Sonia Sanfeliciano Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Spain Yiela Saperstein Und. Researcher Und. Researcher Barnard College Hiroaki Sasai Visiting Scholar Associate Professor Univ. of Osaka, Japan Dorota Sawicka Ph.D. Instructor Hayward Comm. College Julie Schallhorn Und. Researcher Graduate Student Medical School Claus Schindele Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Maximilians Univ., Germany Franziska Schoenebeck Postdoc Professor Univ. of Aachen Cenk Selcuki Visiting Scholar Professor Univ. of Bogazici, Turkey Laura Serbulea Ph.D. Assistant Professor Fresno State College Young Shen Graduate Student Chimin Sheu Postdoc Research Scientist Macronix Intl. Co., Taiwan Fuqiang Shi Visiting Researcher Visiting Researcher UCLA Guadalupe Silvero Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Spain Adam Simon Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Adam Smith Ph.D. Medical Doctor Kentucky Dianne Sod Consultant San Francisco Zhihui Song Undergrad Intern Graduate Student Northwestern David Spellmeyer Ph.D. Research Scientist Nodality Dirk Sperling Visiting Scholar Germany Jason Spruell Ph.D. CEO Startup Courtney Stanton Ph.D. Professional Laughlin Inc. Joey Storer Ph.D. Research Scientist Dow Chemical Thomas Strassner DFG Postdoc Professor Univ. of Dresden, Germany Keiki Sugimoto Lab Helper Chris Suhrada Ph.D. Director Government Service Yu Takano Postdoc Univ. of Osaka Suk-Wah Tam Program Officer NSF Dean Tantillo Ph.D. Professor UC Davis Buck Taylor Postdoc Professor Univ. of Portland Jing Tian Graduate Student Patrick Theofanis Und. Researcher Graduate Student Caltech Bert Thomas Ph.D. Genetics Institute Ekaterina Tkatchouk Postdoc Postdoc Caltech, Goddard Lisa Tork Visiting Und. Res. Graduate Student Harvard Carl Trindle Visiting Scholar Professor Univ. of Virginia Nurcan Tuzun Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Univ. of Bogazici, Turkey Gregori Ujaque Postdoc Privatdozent Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain Anja Ullrich Visiting Grad. Res. Joann Um Ph.D. Professor Southwestern College Gregory Vayner Ph.D. Student UCSD Business School Joseph Vella Und. Researcher Graduate Student Princeton Mercedes Villacampa Visiting Scholar Associate Professor Universidad Complutense-Madrid, Spain Matt Walker Ph.D. Research Scientist Merck Christina Wang Und. Researcher Research Scientist Pfizer Hao Wang Ph.D. Postdoc Univ. of Illinois Renxiao Wang Postdoc Professor Shanghai Jiaotang Univ. Xue Wang Ph.D. Space Development Momentive Leader Xuebao Wang Chemical Company, China Ralph Warmuth Lynen Postdoc Associate Professor Rutgers Ilyas Washington Ph.D. Assistant Professor Columbia University Medical School Katharina Wenz Visiting Grad. Res. Graduate Student Freiburg, Germany Steven Wheeler Postdoc Professor Univ. of Georgia Olaf Wiest Lynen Postdoc Professor Notre Dame Sarah Wilsey Fulbright Scholar Manager Imperial College, Business School Michael Winkler Postdoc Deceased Ellen Wolfgang Ph.D. Law School James T. Wright Graduate Student VP of R&D EcoSynthetix Inc., Canada Celena Wu Und. Researcher Yu (Nicole) Xiang Und. Researcher Undergrad Univ. of Hong Kong Lai Xu Ph.D. Professor Chibu Univ., China Song Yang Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Yunfang Yang Postdoc Postdoc UCLA Zhongyue Yang Graduate Student Graduate Student UCLA Ilhan Yavuz Postdoc Faculty Univ., Turkey Alex Yeh Und. Researcher Graduate Student UCB Gabrille Yeung Visiting Scholar Graduate Student Hi Young Yoo Ph.D. NRC Postdoc Andrews AF Base Peiyuan Yu Ph.D. Postdoc LBL Yanmin Yu VGR VGR UCLA Zhixiang Yu Postdoc Professor Peking University Xiyun Zhang Ph.D. Research Scientist Codexis Yilei Zhao Postdoc Postdoc NIST Hendrik Zipse Postdoc Professor Univ. of Munich ChenChen Zhou CSST Student Graduate Student UCLA Lu-Feng Zou Ph.D. Researcher Gaussian Inc.

Ph.D.s at UCLA = 80 (~3 yr.) Postdocs at UCLA = 78 (~3 yr.) Undergrads at UCLA = 38 (plus 3 CSST students, 1 Lab Helper, and 1 Und. Intern) Visiting Scholars at UCLA = 54 (plus 1 Visiting Researcher)