Fenning Research Group

Prof. Fenning
Hello! I am an Associate Professor in the Nanoengineering department at UC San Diego, where my group works on unlocking insights regarding defects in energy materials to both improve efficiency and lower cost of solar power and solar energy storage.
Post Doctorate
- Dr. Sean P. Dunfield, PhD
Ph.D. Students
- Pedram Abbasi
- Isabel Albelo
- Deniz Cakan
- Zhewen JD Deng
- Connor Dolan
- Gaung-yu Lee
- Jack Palmer
M.S. Students
- Vivek Devalla
- Apoorva Gupta
- Henry Vossler
Undergraduate Students
- Eric Oberholtz
- KC Wong
High School Students
- Nicole Pi
- Ilayda Tinney
Alumni
Postdoc & Ph.D.
- Alireza Kargar – Postdoc, Northwestern
- Guillaume von Gastrow – Engineer, SunPower
- Grace Luo – Postdoc, Argonne National Lab
- Erick Martinez Loran – Postdoc, UCSD
- Jonathan Scharf – Engineer, Tesla
- Xueying Quinn – Electrochemist, Powerit
- Taewoo Kim – Postdoc, Argonne National Lab
- Rishi Kumar – Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Moses Kodur – Scientist, Surface Optics Corporation
M.S.
- Manas Likhit, PhD Student UCSD
- Zachary Dorfman, Swift Solar
- Katherine Chen
- Tulika Rastogi, Intel
- Katherine Rimpau, General Atomics
- Ernesto Magaña, Intel
- Aditi Mhatre, Trupp Global Technologies
- Shreya Rengarajan, Intel
- Timothy Morton, HRL Laboratories
- Ethan Jing, PhD Student UCSD
- Tala Sidawi
- Andrew Zakoor, Apple
UGR & High School
- Joshua Gong
- Michael Mnatsakanian
- Ragad Mohammed
- Aubriana Morris
- Yeghegis Lily Adebaian
- Ashjeet Talwar
- Nancy Youhong Guo
- Alvin Chang
- Edward Dellamary
- Granville Clay Kaufman
- Edward Matios – PhD Student Dartmouth
- Priyasha Shah – Nestle
- Aditi Ganapathi
- Jaeyoung Choi
- Elizabeth Pegg
- Serena Geroe
- Sophia Alm
- Evan Santos
- Victoria Burns
- Seth Donaldson
- Hugo Moctezuma Andraca
- Ayush Gaggar
- Mason Holst
- Justin Skaggs
- Sara Dorr
Links
Positions available.
We have open positions for highly motivated graduate students and postdocs. Backgrounds in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering are of interest.