Current Research Group Members

Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory, UC Davis

Michael Aizenshtein

Work Phone:
(530) 752-1869

Email:
maizenshtein@ucdavis.edu
Position:
visiting scientist
Country of Origin:
Israel
Research:
  • Energetics of thorium, lanthanum and uranium oxides
  • Energetics of rare-earth oxides

  • Shushu Chen

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    nachen@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • Interface and surface energy of yittria-stablized-zirconia and zirconia
  • Mg2SiO4 nanoparticle energetics

  • Gustavo Costa

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    gccosta@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    Brazil
    Research:
  • Zirconia based systems
  • Relaxor ferroelectrics

  • Tori Forbes

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    tmforbes@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    USA
    Research:
  • Metal organic frameworks
  • Carbonates
  • X-ray diffraction

  • Ben Hanken

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    behanken@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    USA
    Research:
  • UO2 - CeO2 solid solutions


  • Jim Hughes

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    jthughes@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. Student
    Country of Origin:
    USA
    Research:
  • Metal organic frameworks

  • Seyedeh Mahboobeh Hosseini

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    shosseini@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    Iran
    Research:
  • Apatite-based ionic conductors

  • Nihan Kemik

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    nkemik@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    Turkey
    Research:
  • Bulk and thin film La(Sr)FeO3 and La(Sr)MnO3 perovskites


  • Kristina Lilova

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    kililova@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    Bulgaria
    Research:
  • Spinels
  • Iron oxide-containing minerals
  • Ultra-high T calorimetry

  • Yuanyuan Ma

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    quma@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • SnO2-TiO2 bulk and nanophases

  • Chengcheng Ma

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    cchma@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • Co-Zn-O nanomaterials

  • Hongwei Ma

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    hwma@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • Manganese and iron oxide nanomaterials

  • Nissim Navi

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    nunavi@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    visiting scientist
    Country of Origin:
    Israel
    Research:
  • perovskites and other phases in CaO-SrO-BaO-TiO2-Y2O3 systems

  • Tae-Jin Park

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    etjpark@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    Korea
    Research:
  • Cs, Cr, Ba silicotitanates for nuclear waste remedation
  • Energetics of TiO2 nanostructures with different morphologies

  • Tatiana Shvareva

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-5863

    Email:
    tyshvareva@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    Russia
    Research:
  • Actinide thermochemistry
  • Melilite oxide ion conductors

  • Olga Trofymluk

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    otrofymluk@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
    Research:
  • Energetics of mesoporous and zeolite materials

  • Sergey Ushakov

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-5863

    Email:
    svushakov@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Staff Research Associate
    Country of Origin:
    Russia
    Research:
  • development of new high temperature instrumentation
  • calorimetry above 1500 C
  • thin films and multilayers

  • Radha Venkataramana

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    ravenkat@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    India
    Research:
  • Amorphous CaCO3
  • Lanthanum zirconate
  • layered double hydroxides


  • Di Wu

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-2132

    Email:
    diwu@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. Student
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • Zeolite-water-SDA interactions

  • Fen Xu

    Work Phone:
    (530) 754-5863

    Email:
    fenxu@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    postdoc
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • sulfide thermochemistry

  • Wei Zhou

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    wezhou@ucdavis.edu
    Position:
    Ph.D. student
    Country of Origin:
    China
    Research:
  • Hafnia-based thin films and nanoparticles

  • Sabrina Martinet

    Work Phone:
    (530) 752-1869

    Email:
    sabmartinez@ucdavis.edu

    Not
    Available

    Position:
    visiting student
    Country of Origin:
    France
    Research:
  • calcium phosphate apatites