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Principal Investigator

Sheila S. David, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis

http://chemistry.ucdavis.edu/faculty/department_faculty/sheila_david.html

Education, Awards, & Professional Highlights

  • ADVANCE Scholar Award, UC Davis (2018)
  • ACS Fellow (2011)
  • AAAS Fellow (2010)
  • AP Sloan Fellow
  • Beckman Young Investigator
  • Appointed to UC Davis faculty (2006)
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1990-1992)
  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota (1989)
  • B.A. Saint Olaf College (1984)

 


Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniel Ta


Graduate Students

Steven Merrill

Mo Hashemian

Melody Malek

Tian Xia

Ellen Chu

Selena Leu

April Lu

Samantha Robinson

Geoffrey Wadey


Undergraduate Researchers

Arsh Joshi

Zhe Cao

Karen Nguyen



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Contact:

Dr. Sheila S. David
ssdavid@ucdavis.edu
(530)-752-4280

Department of Chemistry
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616