Ajay Gopinathan
Professor and Chair, Physics Department
​Director, NSF-CREST Center for Cellular and Bimolecular Machines
Director, NIH G-RISE: Interdisciplinary Biomedical Science and Technology Program (I-BioSTeP)

CV (Curriculum Vitae)
email: agopinathan@ucmerced.edu
Phone: 209 228 4048
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Physical Address: 
School of Natural Sciences,
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road,
Merced, CA 95343

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Current Postdocs

Bhavya Mishra
email: bmishra@ucmerced.edu


Current Graduate Students

Niranjan Sarpangala
email: nsarpangala@ucmerced.edu

Suraj Sahu
email: ssahu2@ucmerced.edu

Joey McTiernan
email: jmctiernan@ucmerced.edu

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


​Current Undergraduate Students

Maria Gamez



Former group members (next positions)

Postdocs

David Quint (Livermore National Lab, Computational Staff Physicist)

Konstantinos Tsekouras ( Purdue University, Postdoc)

Nickolay Korabel (University of Manchester, postdoc)


Graduate Students

Ritwika V.P.S (Postdoc, UCLA)

Imtiaz Ali  (Business School, UChicago)

Farnaz Golnaraghi (Computational Staff Scientist, UChicago)

Bryan Maelfeyt (Instructor, UCM)

Katie Copenhagen (Postdoc, Princeton University)

David Ando (Postdoc, LBNL)

Igor Goncharenko (Data Scientist, Sberbank)


Undergraduate Students

Chandra Bergmann (Airkit Inc.)

Noriyuki Tani (Mitsui Chemicals Inc.)

Robby Puccinelli ( Chan Zuckerberg BioHub)

Amanda Miguel ( Stanford Bioengineering grad student)

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

​Angel Rubalcava


 Affiliate members
Time management and Scheduling Consultant
Anika Gopinathan