People

The team

A multidisciplinary group of chemists, engineers, and computational scientists building instruments and discovering biology together.

Principal Investigator

Facundo M. Fernández

Regents’ & Vasser-Woolley Professor

Regents’ Professor and Vasser-Woolley Endowed Professor in Bioanalytical Chemistry, leading the lab’s work across mass spectrometry instrumentation, metabolomics, and molecular discovery.

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Research Scientists

David Gaul

Research Scientist

since 2013

Samuel Moore

Research Scientist

since 2015

Ying Liu

Research Scientist

since 2018

Postdoctoral Fellows

Albert Vega

Postdoctoral Fellow

since 2025

Graduate Students

Joseph Corstvet

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2021

Elisabeth Schwiebert

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2023

David Lewis

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2024

Eric Gier

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2024

Thomas Knehans

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2025

Tristen West

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2025

Maggie Kim

Ph.D. Student, Chemistry

since 2025

Undergraduate Researchers

Nadia De La Rosa-Ricken

Undergraduate Researcher

since 2023

Catherine Decker

Undergraduate Researcher

since 2026

MaiAnh Doan

Undergraduate Researcher

since 2026

Gillian Greer McCallum

Undergraduate Researcher

since 2026

Maguire Hodgson

Undergraduate Researcher

since 2026

Staff

Rithika Gorrepati

Research Technician

since 2026

Lab alumni

Our former members have gone on to careers across academia, industry, and government.

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