2025
September 2025 Welcome Ph.D. students Salvador Romero and Pavithra Wijeratne, and undergraduate students Rodolfo Medina and Veronique Vorhis to the group!
August 2025 Luis presented a talk and Stefan presented a poster at the 2025 UROC Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
July 2025 Montse’s dilute PdAu work for hydrogen dissociation is published in Nature Communications, marking the first paper from our group!
June 2025 Montse is spending the summer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) under the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program. Congratulations on receiving the internship, Montse!
June 2025 Welcome high school student Alexis Arambula from the ACS SEED summer program to the group!
June 2025 Welcome undergraduate students from the CV PATH summer program, Lillian Gowen (California State University Bakersfield) and Bianca Layaoen (Bakersfield College), to the group!
February 2025 Montse presented at the CAMP symposium and was awarded Honorable Mention in Physical Sciences & Engineering, congratulations!
January 2025 Welcome undergraduate student, Luis Pinacho-Rios to the group!
2024
September 2024 Welcome undergraduate student, Stefan GilbertONeil, and rotation graduate students, Moses Akinwole and S M Mobin Sikder to the group!
August 2024 Montse presented a poster at the 2024 UROC Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
June 2024 Welcome undergraduate students, Nicky Camarena, Montse Mendoza, and Advik Sunil to the group!
May 2024 Jennifer’s postdoctoral work on PdAu catalysts for high chain alcohol oxidation is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A!
January 2024 Jennifer officially joined the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Merced!
The Lee Group at UC Merced 