Ajay Gopinathan
Professor and Chair, Physics Department
​Director, NSF-CREST Center for Cellular and Bimolecular Machines
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
email: agopinathan@ucmerced.edu
Phone: 209 228 4048
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Physical Address: 
Physics Graduate Group,
School of Natural Sciences,
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road,
Merced, CA 95343

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Graduate Students

Bryan Maelfeyt
email:bmaelfeyt@ucmerced.edu 

Ritwika V.P.S
email: ritwika@ucmerced.edu

Imtiaz Ali 
email: iali@ucmerced.edu 

Farnaz Golnaraghi
email: fgolnaraghi@ucmerced.edu 

Niranjan Sarpangala
email: nsarpangala@ucmerced.edu

Jose Zamora (w/ McCloskey Lab)
email: jzamora@ucmerced.edu 

CCBM Postdoctoral Project Scientist

David Quint
Postdoctoral Researcher 
personal webpage
 email: dquint@ucmerced.edu

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Undergraduate Students

Angel Rubalcava

Former group members

Katie Copenhagen (Postdoc: Princeton University)

David Ando (Postdoc: LBNL)

Chandra Bergmann

Noriyuki Tani 

Robby Puccinelli (Chan Zuckerberg BioHub)

Konstantinos Tsekouras ( Currently: Purdue University, Postdoc)

Nickolay Korabel (Currently: University of Manchester, postdoc)

Amanda Miguel (Currently: Stanford Bioengineering grad student)

Alan Blatt (Current: Grad student - Chancellor's fellow, UC Irvine)

Igor Goncharenko (Current: New Economic School, Moscow)



 Affiliate members
Time management and Scheduling Consultant
Anika Gopinathan