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Yin Lab Alumni

Undergraduate Students

  • Jason Antognini (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis 2007-2008).
  • Alicia Noel (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, July 2010-2012)
  • Christopher Colla (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, July 2010-Dec. 2012)
  • Ariel Graykowski (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, March. 2014 – June 2015, now graduate student in planetary sciences at UCLA)
  • Thomas Behrs (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 03/2014 – 06/2016)
  • Madeline Schwarz (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 06/2015 – 08/2017)
  • Gayle Zheng (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 04/2016 – 06/2017)
  • Rebeca Ontiveros (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 01/2017-11/2017)
  • Kacie Brunk (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 07/2017-10/2019)
  • Walid Aslan (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 05/2019-6/30/2020)
  • Jessica Ramirez (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 01/2020-3/2020)
  • Quinn McMichael (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 10/2019-6/2021)
  • Olivia Brock (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 6/30/2021 – 06/30/2022)
  • Levy Pettyjohn (Undergraduate research assistant at UC Davis, 6/30/2022 – 08/22/2023

Graduate Students

  • Ben Jacobsen (Ph.D. Student, 2003-2009)
    Current: Research Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Xiaoyu Shi (Ph.D. Student, 2007-2012; Postdoc 2012-2013)
    Current: Assistant Professor at UC Irvine
  • Supratim Dey (PhD in EPS at UC Davis, Sept. 2017 –  Sept. 15, 2023)
    Current: Boston Consulting Group

Postdocs

  • Jay Black (Postdoc 2005-2007, UC Davis)
    Current: Research Fellow at University of Melbourne)
  • Frederic Moynier (Postdoc, 2006-2008)
    Current: Professor at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris-Université Paris Diderot
  • Luo Yan (Postdoc, 2008-2009)
    Current: University of Alberta
  • Darren Tollstrup (Postdoc, 2009-2011)
    Now: Thermo Scientific
  • Akane Yamakawa (Postdoc, 2011-2013)
    Current: Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
  • Xiaoyu Shi (Postdoc 2012-2013)
    Current: Assistant Professor at UC Irvine
  • Josh Wimpenny (Postdoc 2009-2014)
    Current: Research Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Kate Souders (Postdoc in 2015)
    Current: Research Geologist at USGS.
  • Matthew Sanborn (Postdoc 2013-2018, Assistant Research Scientist 2018-2019)
    Current: Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab.
  • Dr. Magda Huyskens (Postdoc 2014-2020; Academic Federation Member: Associate Specialist (2020-2022) Current: Norwegian Geological Survey, Senior Engineer

Other visiting PhD students and Postdocs hosted

  • Keita Irisawa (visiting Ph.D. student from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Jan.-March 2007, now at Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
  • Geneviève Hublet (visiting PhD student from Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement, Université Libre de Bruxelles, April-July 2011).
  • Brook Peterson (visiting Ph.D. student of Prof. Don DePaolo from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, intermittent between Nov. 2010 – Dec. 2012)
  • Abbey Chrystal (visiting Ph.D. student of Prof. Adina Paytan from the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, intermittent between Nov. 2013 – June 2014)
  • Chia-Te Chien (visiting Ph.D. student of Prof. Adina Paytan from the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz from Nov. 2013 – Nov. 2016).
  • Andrea M. Erhardt (visiting CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellow, now Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky since 2016)
  • Vinciane Debeille (visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from Lunar and Planetary Institute/NASA, Houston 2006-2007, now Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, FNRS Research Associate/Chercheur qualifié FNRS)
  • Bing Shen (visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from Rice University, now Associate Professor at Peking University).
  • Yusuke Sawaki (Visiting Assistant Professor from Tokyo Institute of Technology as a JSPS Fellow, Sep. 2016 to Mar. 2017. now at The University of Tokyo ).
  • Kengo Ito (Visiting Ph.D. student from The University of Tokyo, March 2022 to September 2022)