The Reimer Group Members
Jeff Reimer is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, where he previously served as the C. Judson King Endowed Professor and as the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology while collaborating with researchers at Xerox PARC. Following postdoctoral research at IBM Research in New York, he joined the Berkeley faculty, where he spent his academic career before relinquishing active-duty roles in July 2022.
Professor Reimer has been widely recognized for excellence in teaching, research, and service. He received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award—the university’s highest honor for teaching faculty—and the Warren K. Lewis Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for contributions to chemical engineering education. In 2023, he was awarded the Berkeley Citation, honoring service and achievement that exceed the university’s highest standards.
His research advances environmental protection and sustainability while providing fundamental insights into condensed matter through materials chemistry, physics, and engineering. These contributions have been recognized by his election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance. In 2015, he received a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In addition to his ~ 300 research publications, Professor Reimer is co-author of Chemical Engineering Design and Analysis (with T. M. Duncan, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2019) and Carbon Capture and Sequestration (with Berend Smit, Curt Oldenburg, and Ian Bourg, World Scientific, 2013).). Jeff’s teaching philosophy can be found here, his cv here, and his internet analysis here.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Ah-Young Song is a Fellow with the Pines Magnetic Resonance Center and seeks fundamental insights regarding materials for carbon capture in various solid systems, especially utilizing solid-state NMR. She is leading the USorb-DAC team in the Reimer group ( https://usorbdac.hw.ac.uk ) with a keen focus on direct air capture. She is also interested in teaching and mentoring undergraduate students to help them to utilize what they learn in the classroom. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and studied ion dynamics of solid electrolytes with Prof. Gleb Yushin.
Dr. Wern Ng did his PhD in zero-field electron paramagnetic resonance (ZF-EPR) and room temperature masers at Imperial College London, UK, completing it in 2022. He then did a 2-year postdoc in the Alford group at Imperial on NV diamond masers before joining the Ajoy Lab at UC Berkeley. He currently studies the transient EPR of porphyrins embedded in MOFs, using a homemade EPR spectrometer capable of operating in CW, pulsed and photoexcited transients. He hails from Malaysia, the land of eternal summer (but also eternal humidity) where winter is a figment of imagination....In his free time, he plays guitar, especially video game soundtracks. His favorite plant is the Aglaonema Maria, which blooms flowers each summer
Effective 11/1/26 Dr. Zeke Coady…
Predoctoral Students
Vincent Allen is a second-year graduate student in the Reimer and Long groups. Before coming to Berkeley, Vincent received his bachelor’s in chemistry at Indiana University. With an interest in sustainability, he is working on developing new porous materials and studying them with solid-state NMR. Outside of lab, he loves exploring nature, watching live music, and getting Beyond Burgers in bulk at Costco.
Summit Shrestha is a first year graduate student joint with Ashok Ajoy. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a B.S. in ChemicalEngineering. He is studying the deconstruction process of recycled polymers using NMR. Outside of lab he enjoys climbing, cooking, playing video games, and watching movies.
Chongwei Zhang is a second year graduate student joint with Prof. Ashok Ajoy. He graduated from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2023, with a focus on quantum sensing with NV centers. His Ph.D. research aims to use pulse EPR and NMR to study the hyperpolarization of MOFs. Outside the lab, he enjoys hiking and playing classical guitar.
Research Staff
Dr. Sophia Fricke is an inaugural 2026 ACS-Moore Postdoctoral Bridge Fellow in Quantum Materials with the Pines Magnetic Resonance Center. She is developing theoretical methods to connect magnetic resonance with contemporary mathematical physics, as well as experimentally providing molecular insight into materials and processes in environmental chemistry. Sophia completed her Ph.D. in physical chemistry at UC Davis with Prof. Matthew Augustine, where she optimized the matrix pencil method for signal analysis in low-field, portable NMR. After completing her Ph.D., Sophia went on to postdoc at Dr. Eiichi Fukushima’s company, ABQMR, under Drs. Hilary Fabich and Mark Conradi, before returning to California to join the Reimer lab as a postdoc. Outside of the lab, Sophia enjoys running, hiking, and wilderness photography.
Dr. Hasan Celik is the director of the NMR Facility in the College of Chemistry and is a frequent collaborator with the Reimer group. Hasan is responsible for managing the operational and technical workings of the facility. He specializes in solution-state, diffusion, and imaging methods.
When not busy with putting out fires in the lab, Hasan enjoys trail running and spending time with his family.
Prebachelor Students