People

Our team

Research scientists, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduates and high-school researchers, plus the 30 people who have moved on since the lab opened in 2019.

Principal investigator

Nick SteinmetzPrincipal Investigator

Staff scientists

Kim MillerResearch Scientist

Postdocs

Fabiola Duarte OrtizPostdoctoral Scientist

Aditya DeolePostdoctoral Scientist

Edward YanPostdoctoral Scientist, CIHR Fellow

Graduate students

Saghar MirbagheriPhD Student

Anna LiPhD Student, NIH F31 Fellow

Nancy MackenziePhD Student

Xander LaddPhD Student

Undergraduate scientists

Rachel YinUndergraduate Scientist, Goldwater Scholar

Alice GettigUndergraduate Scientist

Zhorzh ZelenkovUndergraduate Scientist

Annie WuUndergraduate Scientist

Kimmie ShenoyUndergraduate Scientist

Ian McFaddenUndergraduate Scientist, summer

High-school students

Allison LinHigh-School Summer Student

Bersabel BahruHigh-School Summer Student, BRIGHT-UP

Alumni

Former lab members

Everyone who has worked in the lab, most recent first.

Research scientists

2023-2025Jeremy SchroeterResearch scientist
2023-2025Matthew TuckerResearch scientist
2020-2024Ljuvica KolichResearch scientist
2020-2021Haili AdamsResearch scientist
2019-2020Adam DavisResearch scientist

Postdocs

2021-2026Anna BowenPostdocnow faculty at UW
2020-2026Zhiwen YePostdocnow faculty at SMART, Shenzhen, China
2020-2024Daniel BirmanPostdocWashington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow
2020-2023David OttenheimerPostdocjoint w/ Garret Stuber; NIH F32 postdoctoral fellow
2020-2023Noam RothPostdoc

Graduate students

2020-2025Jordan ShakerGraduate studentNIH F30 fellow

Rotation students

2023Christina WangRotation student
2026Alex WuMD-PhD Rotation Student

Undergraduate scientists

2025-2026Autumn TakahashiUndergraduate
2023-2025Pascha MatveevUndergraduateSimons SURFiN fellow 2024
2022-2025Kenneth YangUndergraduateMary Gates awardee 2023; WRF fellowship 2024
2021, 2024Shae McNeilUndergraduatefirst as a BRIGHT-UP high-school student
2022-2024Jasmine SchochUndergraduateSimons SURFiN fellow 2023
2019-2023Hailey BarrellUndergraduate
2020-2023Jay BhatejaUndergraduate
2021-2023Julia HopkinsUndergraduateSimons SURF fellow 2021
2020-2023Jeesoo YoonUndergraduate
2022Qiqi LiangUndergraduate
2021-2022Kai NylundUndergraduateMary Gates awardee 2022
2019-2022Renee WangUndergraduateSimons SURF fellow 2021
2019-2020Sameer ApdalhaliemUndergraduate

High-school students

2025Sophia VarillaHigh-school studentBRIGHT-UP program
2024Arshia KathpaliaHigh-school studentBRIGHT-UP program
2023Bethania BahruHigh-school studentBRIGHT-UP program
2022Nyah StevensonHigh-school studentBRIGHT-UP program